There exists a life. Yes, believe it or not, behind it all, all the hype that has been created about IITs and people in it, there exists a life. It is challenging, yes, and yes there is competitiveness, but there is a dichotomy as well. It could be fun, and then it could get quite frustrating, and sometimes, it can get outright depressing. Depressing to a point that one would just put its head in sand hoping that somehow it would just get over. However, no one comes out of this land unscathed. For better or worse.
These 4/5 years, it's a lot of time in a young man's life. Formative years as they say. And in these formative years, naive students who do not know what they want to do in their lives, who are in this island just because they have cleared some exam whose importance and impact their juvenile minds cannot possibly comprehend, they create something truly beautiful. Backed into a corner, isolated, they have their own trials and tribulations. Stuck in a seemingly never-ending struggle to overcome these, they have created their own "distractions". And within these distractions, these unsuspecting souls find themselves. That is the culture of KGP. Alma matters captures this so well.
Being from KGP myself, I cannot help but be a little biased towards this series. Of course it hit me. It hit me hard. 3 episodes aren't enough to capture everything that goes on in KGP. Or any other institution perhaps. It's an island, a culture of its own formed and carried on by a tradition, passed on by seniors to juniors, replicating itself, and slowly evolving. But in those 3 episodes, it has captured the "Load" & "Peace" of KGP. A treat for a series this is.