Yashdeep Sharma
2 min readMay 16, 2019

KOTA FACTORY Review
(According to my highly limited knowledge of a wonder called Cinema)

Narrative - It’s very often that we see a web series losing its narrative during exploring a subplot or anything. But Raghav Subbu has done a commendable job in maintaining a flow throughout the series.

Cinematography - Well it was a high budgeted show and it was evident from various unconventional shots.
But the way they broke the 180° rule in the last episode during the conversation between vartika and Vaibhav. The camera shifted when vartika takes the higher side during the convo, which was too good for a web series, and must be many such scenes I may have missed to take note.

Dialogue writing - Well it is one thing that has been most talked about but it was really smart writing, and in the last episode, these dialogues have created magic.

Last scene - old but high on feels-- We've seen that type of scene in the end, but the way they've modified it and that last transition of colors. It all shows how much time they must have spent on it's brainstorming.

Acting- As per my view, two tough dialogues of it were, a monologue in the first episode by jeetu bhaiya and in the last episode by uday. And they were given justice by Jeetendra Kumar and Alam Khan. Not to mention, everyone impressed with their skills, especially Meena. I said Meena, not Ranjan Raj, as this will be the name by which he will be remembered for a long time. Although he has given many brilliant performances on screen. My mother during watching actually said, " Ye ladka aisa hi hai na asliyat me bhi? " then I showed her Radheshyam lodge and then she knew how good he was in Kota Factory.

Color- Zaheer sheikh the colorist was given credits just after the cast. And it's evident too after watching it's every scene.

Relatability factor- I wasn’t from Kota. But still, was highly relatable content without any doubt. And mostly most in the last episode.

Limitations:

Bechdel test - Despite having 3 major supporting female characters, this series couldn’t pass it. Well, it can be forgiven as the script was highly focused on only one male character.

Ending this piece by quoting Vaibhav Munjal

The success of a TVF original is inversely proportional to the number of people who ask "TVF Pitchers Season 2 kab aayega?". The more the people talk about Pitchers' next season, the less fulfilling the current series was.