Hostel

A genuine movie made on hostel life and how it can hit upcoming students and ruin their life. This movie shows the life inside the hostel very well and vividly and in a genuine light, that it really happens behind those thick ceramal colored walls. There is entire craziness happening inside the breathless, confined, and congested environment and walls of a hostel, be it a renowned institution. Life in hostel is hostile and cruel as it is been shown in the movie, there is senior-junior discrimination, harsh punishments, deadly ragging, illegal use of cigarettes, sexual harassment. Ragging being on the top, which is known as an "initiation ritual" and where a newbie student is humiliated, harassed, and abused by their seniors in the institute.

Hostel Directed By Manish Gupta is Crime Horror Drama. Direction is Good But Script is Weak. Screenplay is Dull & Boring. Dialogues Are Weak. Cast is Pathetic.

Karan(Vatsal Seth) Moves Jaigarh For Further Studies. He Gets A Room In Hostel. As The Day Pass He is Been Tortured, Molested And Humiliated By Seniors. He Befriends Who Have Been Gone Through Such Phrase. The Seniors Group is Led By Feroz(Mukesh Tiwari). Meanwhile Karan Meets Payal(Tulip Joshi). They Like Each Other. Feroz is Politically Strong, He Does Illegal Activities in Hostel. Karan Faces Them & Finally Retaliates.

A Year Later, A New Guy Pawan Mehta Enters The Same Hostel. He Goes Through Same Humiliation Like Others Have Gone Through. In Order To Bring Peace Karan Takes An Extreme Step.

Acting By Most Of The Actors is Disappointing. Vatsal Seth & Tulip Joshi Both Are Hopeless. Mukesh Tiwari Does Well in Few Scenes.

Music & Lyrics Are Good But Lack Of Better Singers Makes The Songs Sound Average. Background Music is Not There. "No Sound" Effect Not Used Properly. Avoid The Movie And Save Time.

There hasn't been a student either in India or worldwide, that hasn't been bullied at some stage in his life.

The effect this has on the victim has far reaching and unimaginable consequences. The first is isolation and the development inferiority complex. If not dealt with by a psychiatrist, can lead to the individual becoming a social outcast, and his or her hatred of society as a whole. His identity is also becoming slowly annihilated.

This individual will tend to avoid social gatherings and keep a low profile. He or she is easily angered and provoked by ridicule.

Another effect is of revenge. When this occurs, he or she will take the law into his own hands. When this happens, I feel it is too late to save him or her.

Also ragging in college totally disrupts the education of the victim. He cannot concentrate on his studies due to fear of his assailants and also of thoughts of revenge.

The teachings of Jesus Christ doesn't come to play in the modern world. If you offer your enemy your cheek to be slapped, he will demolish your jaw with a "sledgehammer". And anyways its a DOG-EAT-DOG world.

Who is to blame. First and foremost it is the parent or guardian of the victim. The administrative board of college is second. And third it is the government for not offering us any protection as a citizen.

I sometimes wonder, why do governments and countries exist at all when billions of homeless and destitute and exploited people exist. This surely is the biggest enigma.

Hostel is a film directed by writer-director Manish Gupta who has scripted Sarkar (2005) and has directed The Stoneman Murders (2009).

The film starring Vatsal Sheth, Tulip Joshi and Mukesh Tiwari was released worldwide on January 21, 2011

Brief Plot: One night at the Boys' Hostel at Jaigarh University, Satara District, a senior student Feroz (Mukesh Tiwari) and his goons harass freshman geek Vishnu "Battery" Pandey (Subeer Goswamin), stripping him down, molesting him and tying a collar around his neck and forcing him to act like a dog. His cries for help falls on deaf ears as the watchman continues to go about on his rounds....

Verdict: This is among the best films of 2011, and a must watch. I should expect this to be seen by all the deans of colleges worldwide.

1. This film was released in 2011 but its production value looks even more dated. This film was the last nail in Vatsal Sheth's acting career coffin.

2. While the film does try to show us the effects that ragging has on students, it is important to know this film wont age well with time.

3. Today in 2021, ragging like the stuff shown in this film rarely happens. Yes ragging still does exist but i guess films like Chichhore and Hostel Daze portray the real kind of ragging today. So this film HOSTEL looks completely unrealistic in today's time.

4. I initially started watching it just for time pass as it began in a very interesting way but very soon realized it gets monotonous (same thing over and over again - Firoz's goons entering rooms beating juniors, Karan beating his men and this cycle repeats).

5. On top of that, very poor acting, poorly executed scenes. Only our Vasooli bhai (I mean Firoz bhai here) looks dangerous.

6. Overall, this film is not something you would like watching in 2021 but still it has some entertainment in it so i gave it 1 star.

I first thought this movie to be an Ragging wareness video, but later after watching this, I find out to be nothing more than same generic impractical movie potraying impractical circumstances.