Movies and shows like Alma Matters that are based on college life

Campus gifts us memories that most of us cherish forever. In between the transition from leaving your home to live in a hostel to finally making that hostel your home, lies the time that a lot of us rate as the best time of our lives.

If you loved Netflix’s Alma Matters: Inside The IIT Dream that showed us the struggle, frustrations and highs of life in a premier engineering college in India, here’s a list of movies and web shows that you must watch.

Hostel Daze

The show takes you through the adventures of four friends who come to live in the hostel during the first semester of college. Their hilarious journey rightly depicts the struggles and fun of living in a hostel. From ragging and friendship to all the mischief and drama, this show captures it all. One of the best shows on hostel life right now, this one is worthy of a binge-watch.

Girl’s Hostel

Ever wondered what happens inside a girl’s hostel? This show is meant to answer that. Revolving around four girls, this show is a realistic depiction of college life and will definitely take you back to your memories of catfights, sneaking out and bonding between hostel mates.

Engineering Girls

The chances of hearing engineering hostel stories from a female perspective are low, but this show does exactly that. Encompassing the journey of three engineering students living in a girls’ hostel, this show gives you both humour and emotion, coupled with an impeccable performance by the cast. The show gives you a chance to relive the experience of cries, joys and waves of laughter in an engineering hostel.

Laakhon Mein Ek: Season 1

Created by comedian and former IITian Biswa Kalyan Rath, the show focuses on the harsh realities of the entrance exam system in the country. The humorous and emotional journey of a boy stepping out of his hometown to prepare for IIT, Laakhon Mein Ek captures his journey as he deals with the struggles and pressure put down by society. Sailing through the hostel life, making friendships and memories along the way, the show will make you ponder even after it ends.

3 Idiots

The Bollywood blockbuster is one of the best movies to represent engineering college life. The movie takes you on the journey of three friends in a reputed engineering college. With an underlying social commentary on the pressure put on students in the Indian education system, the movie is heavily loaded with comical scenes. Believe it or not, this movie will move you and make you laugh at the same time.

Chhichhore

With an engaging narrative and heart-warming flashback sequences, Chhichhore will melt your heart. Taking you back to hostel rivalries, college romance, bonds with seniors, aggressive competition, the movie is an ode to college and hostel life. A refined package of content, humour and heartfelt emotions, Chhichhore is guaranteed to take you on a nostalgia trip.