Hostel

Hostel (2011)

The truth will hit you.

A hostel is a student's second home, but what happens when this safe place turns into a torture house? A gripping thriller, depicting the effects of ragging.

Date of release
2011-01-21
TMDB
5.1 / 10 (22)
Runtime
2h 28m
Genres
Drama, Action, Crime
Director
Manish Gupta

Casting

Interesting facts

Hostel is a 2011 Indian Hindi-language action crime film written and directed by Manish Gupta. Inspired by true events of the abuse of newcomers to educational institutions, including the Aman Kachroo case, it follows a freshman who goes to live in a hostel and, after becoming a victim of ragging, musters the courage to fight and punish his perpetrators.

Development

The case of Aman Kachroo, a 19 year-old student who was beaten to death because he refused to given into his seniors' demands, along with the story of another student who was sexually abused by his seniors, motivated Manish Gupta to make the film.

Gupta based one of the characters, a bully named Akshay, on Akshay Shere, the director of The Film Emotional Atyachar. Gupta revealed that Shere used to assist Ram Gopal Verma when Gupta was writing Sarkar, and during their conversation, he boasted of being a bully and how boys left college because of him.

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