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You always wonder what promising breakout filmmakers would be able to do with bigger budgets. But beyond cumbersome contracts and perhaps a more rigidly-controlled set, the move to Netflix appears to have done little for the guys behind Kota Factory. After a mildly interesting first season that was nowhere near as good as what the YouTube views would indicate, the show, now stamped with the Netflix ‘tudum’, has returned with a new batch of five episodes that is actually inferior to the first.
There was a slapdash indie spirit to season one. It did the best it could with what little it had, and told an engaging story about IIT aspirants in the town of Kota, Rajasthan — an incubator of sorts that attracts teenagers from all over the country for its ‘mahaul’, and also houses coaching institutes with billion-dollar valuations.
The show has an undeniable authenticity, but it doesn’t really investigate the real-world implications of the culture that it (problematically) romanticises.
Kota Factory doesn’t need an excuse to hit play on the same background song about friendship every time Vaibhav and the gang get together for some shenanigans. It’s understandable to take a ‘best days of our lives’ approach to a story about college, but the sinister undercurrent of what happens in towns such as Kota is essentially ignored. And when the show finally decides to acknowledge the tragic reality of ‘taiyyari’ at this level, it’s too little too late, and comes across as slightly disingenuous, precisely because of how deliberately ignorant the show had been about it all this while.