‘Crash Course’ Review: In 2004 ie 18 years before today, Chetan Bhagat, a banker, left his job and wrote the book ‘Five Point Someone – What Not to Do at IIT’ with the dream of becoming a full time writer. The book becomes very famous. Thousands of copies are seen sold in book shops and thousands of copies are sold at the busy intersections of the city. Famous directors like Raju Hirani also make films on this book with Aamir Khan, but it is necessary to mention Five Point Someone here because after the publication and popularity of this book, there was a revolution in the book world of India.
Suddenly more than 100 books on life in college and college hostel were published and came in the market. In 2019, TVF released a web series called Kota Factory and after that web series based on college life started coming like Hostel Days, College Romance, Girls Hostel etc. The Kota factory was excellent, while the rest were decent. To show the black world of coaching classes for IIT admission preparation in Kota, a very big web series – Crash Course has now been released on Amazon Prime Video. The only mistake of this web series made with the right purpose is that the producer-director wanted to make this web series number one in the merit of the audience and hence they used every angle which they found necessary in making it.
The comparison with the Kota Factory TVF is destined for Crash Course. No matter how hard producer Manish and director Vijay Maurya try, the benchmark for Crash Course has already been set. Does Crash Course have the power to make the audience forget Kota Factory? No. Crash Course has some good chapters like Annu Kapoor. Seeing Annu Kapoor acting after a long time, it seems that this person can get more work. For Annu Kapoor, Ratanraj Jindal’s character is similar to him. Coming from a traditional business family and always in the coaching business with the aim of making a name for himself in the society, Ratanraj’s roots come to the fore again and again from his behavior, manners and clothes.
Do whatever you want, but Ratanraj is seen abusing his mother and sister even wearing a suit and boots and makes the editor of the newspaper do the same for the wrong news published about him. Annu Kapoor has his limitations but he has managed to become a hateful character. Another successful chapter is Anushka Kaushik, who has been playing small roles in web series before. She changed her name from Anushka Sharma to Anushka Kaushik. Anushka Kaushik of Saharanpur, who started her journey with Tik Tok, has played the role of Vidhi Gupta. There is only one character in the entire series, in whose acting many shades are seen.
This girl comes to Kota with the dream of getting top 10 rank in IIT and the audience becomes happy and sad along with her by watching the events happening with her due to different aspects of her life. The character of Binny Agarwal (Udit Arora) in the role of Vidhi Gupta’s brother has been written very well and Udit has given his full strength in playing him. Udit should get more work. His character and acting was also good in Jamtara.
We all know about Kota’s admission factory and coaching classes mushroom. The culture of coaching class, seeing every house in Kota turning into a hostel, one coaching class trying to lure promising children of another coaching class by giving them free education and many other things, spending lakhs of rupees on good teachers, other classes Adopting various tactics to end it. All these and many other things that have been happening in Kota have been being published in the newspapers for at least ten years. Circumstances don’t change. Every year lakhs of students from all over the country land at Kota station, out of which about 95% students see their dreams of IIT breaking and their families bearing the brunt of it.
Earlier coaching classes were run by good teachers who really wanted to help the children. Now businessmen are present to run coaching classes, along with a whole team of professionals who do everything in a corporate way, even the marketing of the toppers in studies is done with a lot of fanfare. Is. Tolerable pressure of studies, gain knowledge of maximum subjects in minimum time so that you can fill the notebooks in the examination. If you can never pass the exam or reach your destination, then either take drugs or commit suicide. The math of quota is so simple.
Crash Course wants to do a lot of things. He also wants to show the rivalry of two coaching classes and out of this, one class is of a qualified teacher and the other is of a businessman. There is teenage romance, there is sex, there is pregnancy, there is also illegal abortion. There is also the stress of studies, there is also the desire of the parents, there is also the unwanted pressure of the parents, there is also the affection of the parents. There is also a gang of local mawalis, there is some fighting too. There are drugs too, there is also one sided love with the girl who sells drugs. You have to disappear from the hostel at night to measure the roads of Kota, you have to study with your friend while sitting in a cafe and you also have to make love part time. Manish Hariprasad and Raina Roy have not left out a single thing which should be there in any web series based on Kota.
In this case, director Vijay Maurya would not have faced any problem because every element of a commercial web series has been included in it. Anyway, this week is of victory. Appeared as an actor in Zee 5’s Rangbaaz. Became a police inspector in Darlings on Netflix. And now he has jumped into directing web series through Crash Course. Vijay basically makes advertising films. A film was also made “Photocopy”. Advertising is a short form. It’s a 30 second story. The expansion of web series is as much as the ocean, so it is necessary for the web series director and writer to keep in mind the basic soul of the story. There is no single plot in Crash Course around which all the other plots are built.
Crash Course would have remained a Bhelpuri if the young actors in it had not done a good job and Chandrashekhar Prajapati of Piku had not done a wonderful job in editing. If you have a lot of time and haven’t seen Kota Factory, then start by watching Crash Course. The web series is fine.
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FIRST PUBLISHED : August 08, 2022, 18:26 IST
