The originality, boldness, and frankness that defined the first season of Kota Factory are scaled back in Season 2. Kota, India’s coaching capital, is a small town in Rajasthan that has evolved into the educational hub for all young people to enter the famous IITs (Indian Institutes of Technology).
The severe competition mirrors the pupils’ intense competition among Kota’s coaching institutes, which fight tooth and nail to get the top students to their territory. All of this was encapsulated in the first season of Kota Factory, which premiered in 2019 with a knack for understatement and a dramatic dilution that mocked simple answers. Season 2 doesn’t bring anything fresh to the table.
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The pupils are stuck in a recalcitrant status quo. Vaibhav (Mayur More), Meena (Ranjan Raj), and Uday (Alam Khan), the three protagonists, are still trying to get into the ITT. They still haven’t made it at the end of Season 2. This can only imply that Season 3 is on the way.
Season 2 of Kota Factory is dull, drab, and a bore, filmed in monochrome like the previous season (why the beautiful black-and-white photography?) The characters, who previously used shards of shredded humor to underline their overbearing desires, are now more resentful than hopeful. Passed with honors is a thing of the past. That is a sobering concept.
Of course, there’s Jeetu Sir, their adored role model with pierced ears and flared nostrils who loves students and rasmalai, in that order. For the hero-worshipping lads, he’s a sort of messiah. Jitendra Kumar (Ayushmann Khurrana’s homosexual partner in Shubh Mangal Zyada Savdhaan) plays the character. Jeetu Bhaiya appears to be sarcastic rather than iconic.
Tastes, on the other hand, are difficult to predict. According to what I’ve heard, the Kota children have their fair share of instructors who are heroes. And that they are enamored with the most unlikely of teachers. Not only is Jeetu Bhaiyya a mentor, advisor, and counselor, but he has also decided to start his coaching institute, which he has named Aimers.
What a brilliant idea! If only the playwright (Saurabh Khanna) had leaned more toward adventure, the characters would have progressed! The characters appear to be stuck in time as they debate the curriculum, literature, girlfriends, and masturbation. Throughout Episode 2, the mythological Jeetu Bhaiya gives gyan to one of the protagonists, Meena, masturbating. Even his female buddy talks about the “m” words with unashamed single-mindedness, which is refreshing.
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In Kota Factory, none of this adds up to anything novel. To put it another way, let’s put it this way. You wouldn’t have missed anything if you skipped Season 2 and went straight to Season 3 (if there is another season). The stagnancy in the life of ITT candidates, who are dealing with hunger, a non-recreational schedule, and an increasing sense of why-am-I-here, is reflected in Kota Factory 2.
Sushrut (Vaibhav Thakkkar), a fresh student, raises the question that all educators should: why only ITT? A more pressing concern is why another show season doesn’t allow its characters to grow?
