What Is the Story About?
The Viral Fever’s Girls Hostel Season 3 takes up precisely from where Season 2 left off. The show revolves around the lives of residents of a girls’ hostel of the SVM Institute of Medical Sciences. The show follows the trials and tribulations of a bunch of girls, right after the presidential elections. This time politics, gender inclusivity, freedom and most importantly the Student Council’s talent show forms the crux.
Performances?
Much like previous seasons, Shristi Shrivastava is the most watchable actor in the show as long as she is there. Parul Gulati, Ahsaas Channa, and the rest of the cast do a really good job too. Ahsas Channa drives the proceedings in this season, taking the baton over from Parul Gulati and she does ooze the charm required for the role quite well. Tanvi Lehr Sonigra’s performance is a scene stealer. Shreya Mehta‘s loud Ramya Mantri goes through a redemption arc this season. Jayati Bhatia impresses as the money laundering grey shaded Dean extraordinarily well. None of the other characters register enough.
Analysis
Created by Shreyasi Sharma and helmed by Hanish D Kalia, Girls Hostel Season 3 is produced by Arunabh Kumar and written by Anuya Jakatdar, Alka Shukla, and Shreyasi Sharma. Picking up from where the second seasons left off, Girls Hostel Season 3 begins with Zahira, the current Student Council President fighting for basic amenities like inclusive policy, mental health campaigns, transparency of funds, water conservation and lower hostel fees.
Of all the issues bugging the hostel-mates, inclusivity and lack of freedom remains the most troubling ones for both Zahira and Richa. However, as viewers we could care little for the student council struggling to conduct the talent show, they fought for. Gender-fluidity related conversations were also quite tough to watch. One could see through the immaturity, lack of seriousness and nuance in the writing of Girls Hostel Season 3 easily.
Girls Hostel Season 3 deals with Shristi Shrivastava’s character arc quite well. She finally gets to make a choice, stand by it and execute it, years after rebelling against the system. None of the other characters possess a root-worthy progression, while some even appear and disappear like caricatures. The problems faced by the student council also look too trivial this time. The preparation, hustle, hurdles and final conclusive moments of talent show also come across as too pretentious.
If anything, Girls Hostel Season 3 suffers from bad writing. The stakes are low, the dialogues badly written, comedic moments don’t land, the characters are stagnant and their problems, too silly. The charm of main leads make the show watchable initially, but it becomes an irredeemable mess by the time the finale approaches. The episodes are hardly half an hour long. There’s barely anything happening and too much happening in this season, both for the good and bad. In short, watch Girls Hostel Season 3 is boring and forgettable. It’s however very short and binge-worthy. Watch it only if you’re an ardent TVF fan.
Music and Other Departments?
The background score and music of Girls Hostel is nothing ground breaking. While some of the songs played are mood-lifters in literal sense, the series itself doesn’t provide room for the music and score to shine enough. The camerawork is very reminiscent of early TVF creations. The editing team however has done a crispy job in scissoring the run-time and making Girls Hostel Season 3 binge-worthy.
Highlights?
Cast
Short Duration
Drawbacks?
Writing
Clumsy & Boring proceedings
Did I Enjoy It?
No
Will You Recommend It?
Not really.
Girls Hostel Season 3.0 Review by Binged Bureau