{"id":62774,"date":"2026-11-12T12:45:41","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T12:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/waqtdiawaz.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/12\/student-of-the-year-after-dark-reema-maya-on-turning-a-glossy-college-franchise-into-a-murder-mystery\/"},"modified":"2026-11-12T12:45:41","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T12:45:41","slug":"student-of-the-year-after-dark-reema-maya-on-turning-a-glossy-college-franchise-into-a-murder-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waqtdiawaz.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/12\/student-of-the-year-after-dark-reema-maya-on-turning-a-glossy-college-franchise-into-a-murder-mystery\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Student of the Year: After Dark\u2019: Reema Maya on turning a glossy college franchise into a murder mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"picture verticle\"><picture><!--[if IE 9]><video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]--><source media=\"(min-width: 1600px)\" sizes=\"960px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/th-i.thgim.com\/public\/entertainment\/movies\/6mpqhq\/article71692958.ece\/alternates\/LANDSCAPE_1200\/Reema%20Maya%20and%20a%20still%20of%20Shanaya%20Kapoor%20from%20%E2%80%98Student%20of%20the%20Year%20After%20Dark%E2%80%99\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 1599px)\" sizes=\"640px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/th-i.thgim.com\/public\/entertainment\/movies\/6mpqhq\/article71692958.ece\/alternates\/LANDSCAPE_1200\/Reema%20Maya%20and%20a%20still%20of%20Shanaya%20Kapoor%20from%20%E2%80%98Student%20of%20the%20Year%20After%20Dark%E2%80%99\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 321px) and (max-width: 767px)\" sizes=\"400px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/th-i.thgim.com\/public\/entertainment\/movies\/6mpqhq\/article71692958.ece\/alternates\/LANDSCAPE_660\/Reema%20Maya%20and%20a%20still%20of%20Shanaya%20Kapoor%20from%20%E2%80%98Student%20of%20the%20Year%20After%20Dark%E2%80%99\"\/><source media=\"(max-width: 320px)\" sizes=\"320px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/th-i.thgim.com\/public\/entertainment\/movies\/6mpqhq\/article71692958.ece\/alternates\/LANDSCAPE_320\/Reema%20Maya%20and%20a%20still%20of%20Shanaya%20Kapoor%20from%20%E2%80%98Student%20of%20the%20Year%20After%20Dark%E2%80%99\"\/><!--[if IE 9]><\/video><![endif]--><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/theme\/images\/th-online\/1x1_spacer.png\" alt=\"Reema Maya and a still of Shanaya Kapoor from \u2018Student of the Year: After Dark\u2019\" title=\"Reema Maya and a still of Shanaya Kapoor from \u2018Student of the Year: After Dark\u2019\" data-original=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/theme\/images\/th-online\/1x1_spacer.png\" class=\"lead-img\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/picture><\/div>\n<p class=\"caption\">\n                    Reema Maya and a still of Shanaya Kapoor from \u2018Student of the Year: After Dark\u2019<br \/>\n                                          | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement\n                                      <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"content-body-71692908\">\n<div class=\"schemaDiv\" id=\"schemaDiv\">\n<p>It\u2019s been over fourteen years since Alia Bhatt, Sidharth Malhotra and Varun Dhawan exhibited charming resolve in Karan Johar\u2019s college romance, <i>Student of the Year<\/i> (2012).<i\/>With its glossy fixation on love and hyper-realistic competitive setup, the film returned with a rather forgettable sequel in 2019 with Tiger Shroff, Ananya Panday and Tara Sutaria. Cut to now, the franchise is getting a new life as the famed St. Teresa College in the mountains turns grittier with the upcoming JioHotstar series, <i>Student of the Year: After Dark<\/i>, offering a complete reimagination.<\/p>\n<p>The latest installment is helmed by Reema Maya, who makes her streaming debut with the show. Reema is known for making stylised shorts steeped in urgent realism like <i>Nocturnal Burger<\/i> (2023) and <i>Counterfeit Kunkoo<\/i> (2017). <i>SOTY: After Dark<\/i> was entirely different than what she had worked on before. Naturally, she was surprised when Johar\u2019s Dharmatic Entertainment approached her to direct the show. \u201cI was also curious to understand what they wanted to do with the show and why they thought I would be the right choice. Their answer was simple: they wanted me to take it and make it my own. It means a lot that Karan put faith in my vision,\u201d says Reema, ahead of the show\u2019s release on November 13.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"update-publish-time article-published-time-end\">\n<p class=\"publish-time-new\"> Published <span>&#8211; November 12, 2026 05:38 pm IST<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/entertainment\/movies\/student-of-the-year-after-dark-reema-maya-on-turning-a-glossy-college-franchise-into-a-murder-mystery\/article71692908.ece\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reema Maya and a still of Shanaya Kapoor from \u2018Student of the Year: After Dark\u2019 | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement It\u2019s been over fourteen years since Alia Bhatt, Sidharth Malhotra and Varun Dhawan exhibited charming resolve in Karan Johar\u2019s college romance, Student of the Year (2012).With its glossy fixation on love and hyper-realistic competitive setup, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/waqtdiawaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/waqtdiawaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/waqtdiawaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waqtdiawaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waqtdiawaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/waqtdiawaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waqtdiawaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/waqtdiawaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waqtdiawaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waqtdiawaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}