Hostel Daze

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Hostel Daze
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Genre Adult comedy-drama
Created by
  • Saurabh Khanna
  • Abhishek Yadav
Screenplay by
  • Saurabh Khanna
  • Harish Peddinti
  • Suprith Kundar
Directed by
  • Raghav Subbu (S 1)
  • Amir Musanna (S 2)
  • Sangram Naiksatam (S 2)
  • Abhinav Anand (S 3)
  • Sachin Negi (S 3)
Starring
Country of originIndia
Original languageHindi
No. of seasons4
No. of episodes21
Production
Producer Arunabh Kumar
CinematographyChetan Jagannath Shinde
Ashwin Kadamboor
Bibartan Ghosh
Hari K. Vedantam
Running time30 minute
Production company The Viral Fever
Original release
Release13 December 2019 (2019-12-13)
Related
Engga Hostel

Hostel Daze is an Indian Hindi-language comedy drama television series created by Saurabh Khanna and written by Abhishek Yadav. Directed Raghav Subbu, it stars Adarsh Gourav, Luv Vispute, Shubham Gaur, Nikhil Vijay and Ahsaas Channa in lead roles. [1] Hostel Daze premiered on Amazon Prime Video on 13 December 2019. The series contains four seasons, with a total of 21 episodes of approximately 30 minutes each. Season 2 premiered on 23 July 2021, Season 3 premiered on 16 November 2022 and Season 4 premiered on 27 September 2023. [2]

Contents

Premise

The series follows four hostel friends in their first year: Jhantoo (Nikhil Vijay), Chirag (Luv), and Jaat (Shubham Gaur) are new students in campus and become roommates. [3]

Characters

The cast include: [4]

Reception

Jessica Xalxo, writing for RollingStone India observed: "Instead of confronting the very real issues that students are faced with, Hostel Daze trivializes them to the point of tradition, normalization and acceptance. And in its portrayal of the truth lies an endorsement that feels both endemic and dangerous, beyond the trappings of the genre." [5]

Remake

Viral Fever remade the series in Tamil as Engga Hostel in January 2023 and in Telugu as Hostel Days in July 2023 which are also available on Amazon Prime Video. [6]

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References

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