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Kota Factory
कोटा फ़ैक्ट्री
2019 · TV series · 40 min episodes · 3 seasons
Created by Saurabh Khanna, Arunabh Kumar, Raghav Subbu
In a city of coaching centers known to train India’s finest collegiate minds, an earnest but unexceptional student and his friends navigate campus life.
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There's definitely a Netflix aesthetic - if you watch a lot of Netflix you'll see it. Especially in Indian/Bollywood circles, "Netflix movie" is a pejorative. It means its shot in a certain high-res way, favoring aerial shots & cutaways, with a certain unnatural ( unnatural to the Indian mileau/culture) point of view, which is not reflected in the Indian society on average. A certain casualness about foul language, obscenity, adultery etc... all of which certainly has its place if the content is some gangster flick or deals with the seamier side of life. But even if the show is about say the education sector (eg. Kota Factory on Netflix ) - they manage to make it very Netflixy. I don't know how else to describe it. Lots of drone shots. Frequent focus on the abnormalities of the place. Its certainly more dramatic. But its mining for drama that isn't naturally present in the subject matter. I like parts of it but it becomes too much to take after a point. I have to consciously turn it off and walk away, shaking my head. They make a hash of it.