Kota Factory (Season 1)

Comedy Drama

TV-14

Hindi

April 16, 2019

30 – 45 minutes

Season: 1

Episodes: 5

Status: released

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Country	India
Language	Hindi
Genre	Drama Comedy
Season	1
Episodes	5
Release date	16 April 2019 – 14 May 2019
Running time	30 – 45 minutes
Age rating	TV-14
Starring	Mayur More Ranjan Raj Alam Khan Jitendra Kumar Revathi Pillai Urvi Singh Ahsaas Channa
Created by	Saurabh Khanna Arunabh Kumar
Directed by	Raghav Subbu
Written by	Saurabh Khanna Abhishek Yadav
Produced by	Arunabh Kumar
Executive producer	Sameer Saxena
Cinematography by	Jerin Paul
Edited by	Gourav Gopal Jha
Music by	Karthik Rao Simran Hora
Filming locations	Kota, Rajasthan, India
Production Company	The Viral Fever
Distributor	TVFPlay YouTube

Kota Factory (Season 1) Web Series Cast & Character:

Mayur More as Vaibhav Pandey
Jitendra Kumar as Jeetu Bhaiya
Ranjan Raj as Balmukund Meena
Alam Khan as Uday Gupta
Revathi Pillai as Vartika Ratawal
Urvi Singh as Meenal Parekh
Harish Peddinti as Bablu
Ahsaas Channa as Shivangi Ranawat
Sameer Saxena as Maheshwari Sir
Vaibhav Thakkar as Sushrut Patel
Arun Kumar as Deepak
Sachin Vidrohi as Alok
Jyoti Gauba as Mummy
Avi Singh as Shubham
Gaurav Mishra as Batla Sir
Amitabh Krishna Ghanekar as Papa
Kailash Sharma as Unacademy Educator
Bhavya Dutt as Jatin
Poojan Chhabra as Badri

Storyline:

Dedicated to Shrimati SL Loney ji, Shri Irodov ji and Maanniya HC Verma ji, ‘Kota Factory’ is TVF’s latest original. India’s first ‘Black and White’ show highlights the problems present day IIT-JEE aspirants face in their day-to-day lives.

Kota Factory (Season 1) Web Series Tracklist:

No.	Title	Music	Singer(s)	Length
1.	“The Gentleman”	Simran Hora	Simran Hora	02:50
2.	“Main Bola Hey!”	Karthik Rao	Abhishek Yadav, Manish Chandwani, Karthik Rao	02:33
3.	“Nostalgia”	Karthik Rao	Instrumental	03:18
4.	“Jeetu Bhaiya”	Karthik Rao	Instrumental	01:07
5.	“Against the Flow”	Simran Hora	Instrumental	01:28
6.	“Hero’s Journey”	Karthik Rao	Instrumental	03:05
7.	“21 Days”	Simran Hora	Instrumental	01:36
8.	“With the Flow”	Simran Hora	Instrumental	00:58
9.	“Practical Love”	Karthik Rao	Instrumental	01:52
10.	“Hi Gili Gili”	Karthik Rao	Simran Hora	00:50
11.	“Truth”	Simran Hora	Instrumental	02:15
12.	“The Dark Side of the Gentleman”	Simran Hora	Instrumental	03:09
Total length:				25:01

Kota Factory (Additional Soundtrack)

No.	Title	Music	Singer(s)	Length
1.	“Yaaron”	Ankur Tewari	Ankur Tewari	04:12
2.	“Mohabbat Zindabad”	Karsh Kale, The Ghalat Family	Ankur Tewari	03:29
Total length:				32:42

About Kota Factory (Season 1) Web Series:

Kota Factory is an Hindi comedy drama web series created by Saurabh Khanna, directed by Raghav Subbu and produced by Arunabh Kumar for The Viral Fever. It stars Mayur More, Jitendra Kumar, Ahsaas Channa, Alam Khan, Ranjan Raj, Revathi Pillai and Urvi Singh.

Saurabh Khanna, the creator of the show, said that he aims to change the popular narrative surrounding Kota and preparation for IIT-JEE & NEET in Indian pop culture to a more positive one via the show.

Kota Factory was shot in colour and graded into monochrome later during post production (black-and-white). The shooting was kickstarted in January 2019 and ended within 30 days.

Kota Factory sponsored with Unacademy in order to promote the series, based on its storyline. In December 2018, TVF released the official teaser through its YouTube channel which received wide response from audiences. Later, the official trailer of the first season was unveiled on 28 March 2019.

The series consisting of five episodes was released simultaneously through TVF Play and YouTube from 16 April 2019, with each episode being aired per week. The series finale premiered on 14 May 2019. The series received a generally positive response from critics, praising its black & white setting, realism, and the major technical aspects of the series.

On 30 August 2021, Netflix announced that the series would be renewed for a second season, which was released on 24 September 2021. On 26 September 2021, Raghav Subbu confirmed that the third season was in the works.

Kota Factory (Season 1) Episodes

Kota Factory S1, Episode 1 - Inventory

16 April 2019

Vaibhav comes to Kota in the middle of the academic year and is allotted the worst batch of Prodigy classes, A10, after being denied admission at Maheshwari classes. He meets Meena at his new homestay, also in Prodigy, who tells him that he should not accept admission into A10. He speaks to Deepak, the Head Manager of Prodigy, but is denied his request to change his batch. Then, he meets Jeetu Bhaiya, the Physics lecturer, who gives Vaibhav a 50-question paper and tells him to complete it by the next day. With the help of Meena and Uday, he solves 42 questions by copying the solutions from different books but is unable to do the remaining 8. The next day, Jeetu Bhaiya points out his cheating, and Vaibhav accepts that he cheated, however, Jeetu Bhaiya allots Vaibhav the A5 batch because of his hard work.

Kota Factory S1, Episode 2 - Assembly Line

23 April 2019

Vaibhav struggles to sleep, eat food at mess, drink water (which he finds salty) and study for long hours at Kota. Uday and Meena try to help their new friend but all in vain. One day, Jeetu Bhaiya acknowledges about his problems and helps him with the solutions. Eventually, within 21 days, Vaibhav has all the struggles sorted with all the help he has.

Kota Factory S1, Episode 3 - Optimization

30 April 2019

Vaibhav is not able to cope up with Inorganic Chemistry and blames the teachers who teach the subject. But even after changing 3 teachers for the subject, he bursts out all his anger and frustration in front of Meena, who then takes him to Jeetu Bhaiya. He advises Vaibhav to drop the subject.

Kota Factory S1, Episode 4 - Shutdown

7 May 2019

Jeetu Bhaiya advises his students to take a break from JEE studies and attend practicals at school. Uday suggests exploring Kota with his girlfriend, Shivangi, and invites Vaibhav and another girl, Vartika, to join them. While Uday discusses the plan with Vaibhav, Meena engages in conversation with Meenal, a studious girl from their class. Initially, Meena plans to study with Vaibhav but changes her mind based on Meenal's advice. As Vaibhav declines the invitation, Meena goes in his place. Vartika, who also wants to study, seeks help from Vaibhav and they study together while Uday, Shivangi, Meena, and Meenal roam around Kota. During this time, Vaibhav and Vartika develop unspoken feelings for each other. In order to be closer to Vartika, Vaibhav takes an exam alongside her to gain admission to Maheshwari, although he personally doesn't want to go there. After the exams, Vaibhav and Vartika start studying for their 12th-grade exams together. Meena realizes that wandering around Kota was pointless as he starts developing feelings for Meenal, but she reveals her plans to move to the US. He regrets not focusing on studying instead.

Kota Factory S1, Episode 5 - Overhaul (Season Finale)

14 May 2019

Vaibhav is shocked to learn that he has been selected for Maheshwari classes. Deepak and Batla Sir talk to the group of students who have been selected for Maheshwari, including Vaibhav. The students are allotted in A1 to discourage them from changing their coaching center. Vaibhav has already settled in Prodigy and has no intention of leaving. Jeetu Bhaiya is also brought in to address the group, and all the students express their decision not to go to Maheshwari. However, Jeetu Bhaiya insists that Vaibhav should join Maheshwari due to the larger number of students and better focus there. Initially reluctant, Vaibhav consults with his parents based on Uday's advice and decides to join Maheshwari. He bids farewell to Shivangi, Meena, Uday, and Vartika. Uday drops him off at Maheshwari, where he is allotted A3. There, he meets a nervous student named Sushrut, who is in A7.

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