# Crash Course (2022 TV series)
**Crash Course** is a 2022 Indian Hindi-language drama television series directed by Vijay Maurya and released on Prime Video. It follows two warring coaching institutes in [Kota, Rajasthan](https://www.edgepedia.org/kota-rajasthan), and the consequences of their rivalry on the students who come there to study, tracing a journey of friendship, first love, heartbreak, peer pressure, and the loss of innocence of youth.[1](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/crash_course_2022) The series was created by Manish Hariprasad, who wrote it with Raina Roy, and produced by Owlet Films.[2](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19868542/)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Original network | Prime Video (Amazon Prime Video)[1](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/crash_course_2022) |
| Release | August 5, 2022, in India and across 240 other countries and territories[3](https://www.mid-day.com/amp/entertainment/web-series/article/it-was-both-fun-and-challenging-shared-director-vijay-maurya-on-his-working-with-the-young-talents-in-amazon-prime-videos-crash-course-23238643) |
| Format | 1 season, 10 episodes of about 45 minutes each, all released on August 5, 2022[4](https://www.moviefone.com/tv-shows/crash-course/kJmY95c95Y4VdcflN7KJc6/) |
| Genre and language | Drama, in Hindi[1](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/crash_course_2022) |
| Key creative team | Director Vijay Maurya; writers Manish Hariprasad and Raina Roy; production company Owlet Films[2](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19868542/) |
| Lead cast | Annu Kapoor as Ratanraj Jindal; Bhanu Uday as Shashank Batra; Siddharth Kak as Arvind Batra; Chirag Vohra as Mayank Batra[1](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/crash_course_2022) |
| Audience rating | 7.3/10 on IMDb from about 4,400 user ratings[5](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19868542/ratings/) |
## Spoilers
### Premise
The series is set in Kota, a city known as a coaching hub for students preparing for the IIT and other entrance examinations. Its central conflict is the rivalry between the two biggest coaching institutes in the city, led by Ratanraj Jindal ([Annu Kapoor](https://www.edgepedia.org/annu-kapoor)) and the Batra family, whose institute is run by Arvind Batra (Siddharth Kak) and his sons Shashank (Bhanu Uday) and Mayank (Chirag Vohra).[1](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/crash_course_2022) • [6](https://www.ottplay.com/review/crash-course-review-annu-kapoors-show-is-a-grim-extension-of-kota-factory-and-a-lot-more/405b7b8a35295) The two owners are described as hell-bent on finishing the other to gain complete control of the education business in Kota, with students and teachers as the pawns in the contest.[2](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19868542/)
Eight new students arrive to study at the rival institutes, and their lives become entangled in the competition.[1](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/crash_course_2022) The eight core students are Anil, Sathya, Aviral, Rakesh, Vidhi, Shanaya, Tejal, and Nikki, characters the show presents as representing the large numbers of students who come to Kota each year with their dreams and ambitions.[2](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19868542/) As the season progresses, the pressures and competition intensify, and the collision between the students' world and that of the institute owners raises the stakes and puts lives at risk.[2](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19868542/)
## Production and release
Vijay Maurya directed the series from a script by Manish Hariprasad and Raina Roy, with Hariprasad also producing through Owlet Films and serving as executive producer credit alongside Sanjeevkumar Nair.[2](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19868542/) • [1](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/crash_course_2022) The cast combines the veteran actor Annu Kapoor with eight younger performers, Mohit Solanki, Hridhu Haroon, Anushka Kaushik, Riddhi Kumar, Bhavesh Balchandani, Aryan Singh, Hetal Gada, and Anvesha Vij. Maurya described directing the young cast as both fun and challenging, saying the first two days were difficult before the performances matched what Hariprasad had described in the script.[3](https://www.mid-day.com/amp/entertainment/web-series/article/it-was-both-fun-and-challenging-shared-director-vijay-maurya-on-his-working-with-the-young-talents-in-amazon-prime-videos-crash-course-23238643)
All ten episodes were released together on August 5, 2022, on Prime Video in India and across 240 other countries and territories.[3](https://www.mid-day.com/amp/entertainment/web-series/article/it-was-both-fun-and-challenging-shared-director-vijay-maurya-on-his-working-with-the-young-talents-in-amazon-prime-videos-crash-course-23238643) • [4](https://www.moviefone.com/tv-shows/crash-course/kJmY95c95Y4VdcflN7KJc6/) The series carries subtitles and audio in a wide range of languages on the platform, including Hindi with SDH subtitles.[7](https://tv.apple.com/in/show/crash-course/umc.cmc.2i35i346uxi10t1nhjh9fc2ua)
## Reception
Critics placed the series in the company of earlier shows about Kota's coaching industry, particularly the TVF series *Kota Factory*, and several noted that the basic premise was not new. The Times of India's review gave the season 3 out of 5, writing that it offers an interesting insight into the cutthroat competition between two major coaching institutes and the impact on students' lives.[8](https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/web-series/reviews/hindi/crash-course/season-1/seasonreview/93278001.cms) A Hindustan Times review judged that the series stands far from *Kota Factory* in realism but credited it with addressing student suicides, parental pressure, love angles, teenage pregnancy, and drugs.[9](https://www.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/web-series/crash-course-review-annu-kapoor-s-show-is-no-kota-factory-but-worth-a-watch-101659942556453-amp.html) An OTTplay review rated it 3.5 out of 5, calling it a grim extension of *Kota Factory* about the systemic diseases in the country's rat-race education system, while noting there was little novelty in the plot.[6](https://www.ottplay.com/review/crash-course-review-annu-kapoors-show-is-a-grim-extension-of-kota-factory-and-a-lot-more/405b7b8a35295) A Rediff review praised Annu Kapoor's performance but found the 10-episode format with a runtime of 50-odd minutes per episode too much.[10](https://www.rediff.com/movies/review/crash-course-review/20220805.htm)
On IMDb, the series holds a rating of 7.3/10 from about 4,400 votes, with per-episode user ratings for the first season ranging from 8.4 to 9.1.[5](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19868542/ratings/) On Rotten Tomatoes, the season's Tomatometer is based on a single review, the Times of India's 3/5.[11](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/crash_course_2022/s01)
## Context: Kota's coaching industry
The series draws on a real setting. Kota in [Rajasthan](https://www.edgepedia.org/rajasthan) is known as the country's coaching factory for IIT-JEE and NEET aspirants, and in July 2022 Moneycontrol reported that about 300,000 students had come to the city that year, a two-fold jump over 2019 levels.[12](https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/startup/the-tragedy-of-kota-from-edtech-wars-to-rising-suicide-numbers-10987191.html) Reporting on the industry describes a cutthroat environment in which institutes poach each other's faculty, and in which commercialization has increased the number of seats and aspirants, putting more pressure on students.[13](https://www.financialexpress.com/jobs-career/education-how-kota-institutes-are-caught-in-a-competition-grind-2604781/lite/) • [12](https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/startup/the-tragedy-of-kota-from-edtech-wars-to-rising-suicide-numbers-10987191.html) Reviewers of the series connected its depiction of academic pressure and student suicides to this reality in Kota.[14](https://theenvoyweb.com/reviews/crash-course-2022-review-prime-video/)
## References
1. [Crash Course (2022) | Rotten Tomatoes](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/crash_course_2022)
2. [Crash Course (TV Series 2022– ) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19868542/)
3. [Vijay Maurya on working with young talents in Crash Course, Mid-Day](https://www.mid-day.com/amp/entertainment/web-series/article/it-was-both-fun-and-challenging-shared-director-vijay-maurya-on-his-working-with-the-young-talents-in-amazon-prime-videos-crash-course-23238643)
4. [Crash Course - TV Series | Moviefone](https://www.moviefone.com/tv-shows/crash-course/kJmY95c95Y4VdcflN7KJc6/)
5. [Crash Course (TV Series 2022– ) - Ratings - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19868542/ratings/)
6. [Crash Course review: Annu Kapoor's show is a grim extension of Kota Factory and a lot more, OTTplay](https://www.ottplay.com/review/crash-course-review-annu-kapoors-show-is-a-grim-extension-of-kota-factory-and-a-lot-more/405b7b8a35295)
7. [Crash Course - Apple TV](https://tv.apple.com/in/show/crash-course/umc.cmc.2i35i346uxi10t1nhjh9fc2ua)
8. [Crash Course Season 1 Review, The Times of India](https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/web-series/reviews/hindi/crash-course/season-1/seasonreview/93278001.cms)
9. [Crash Course review: Annu Kapoor's education drama is no Kota Factory but entertaining enough for a binge watch, Hindustan Times](https://www.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/web-series/crash-course-review-annu-kapoor-s-show-is-no-kota-factory-but-worth-a-watch-101659942556453-amp.html)
10. [Crash Course Review, Rediff.com](https://www.rediff.com/movies/review/crash-course-review/20220805.htm)
11. [Crash Course: Season 1 | Rotten Tomatoes](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/crash_course_2022/s01)
12. [The tragedy of Kota: From edtech wars to rising suicide numbers, Moneycontrol](https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/startup/the-tragedy-of-kota-from-edtech-wars-to-rising-suicide-numbers-10987191.html)
13. [How Kota institutes are caught in a competition grind, The Financial Express](https://www.financialexpress.com/jobs-career/education-how-kota-institutes-are-caught-in-a-competition-grind-2604781/lite/)
14. [Crash Course (2022) review: Relevant message behind an unoriginal premise, The Envoy Web](https://theenvoyweb.com/reviews/crash-course-2022-review-prime-video/)
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