The film, starring Vatsal Sheth, Tulip Joshi and Mukesh Tiwari, was released worldwide on 21 January 2011.

[1] One night at the boys' hostel at Jaigarh University, a senior student Feroz and his goons harass freshman geek Vishnu Pandey , stripping him down, molesting him, and forcing him to act like a dog.

That evening, Akshay, a gang leader, tries to extort money from him in front of dozens of senior males.

Vishnu tells Karan Feroz that he has deliberately been unsuccessful in his exams so that he can continue to live in luxury in the hostel and has become the general secretary by intimidating the students.

In his room, he finds the goons, with Vishnu, Nilesh, and Bobby, who have been corrupted by Feroz and are now part of his gang.

One night, Feroz brings a prostitute to the hostel and asks Pawan to have unprotected sex with her to be witnessed by the entire gang and the warden.

When Karan leaves, Feroz and the gang, intoxicated and aroused, enter Pawan's room and rape him.

A traumatized and pantless Pawan hangs himself from the ceiling fan with blood dripping down his legs, suggesting he was sodomized.

That night, Karan locks all the hostel gates, goes to Feroz's room, and shoots Vishnu, Bobby, Nilesh, and the warden three times each.

Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama gave the film 1.5 out of 5, writing, "On the whole, HOSTEL is a solid idea gone awry.

"[2] Nikhat Kazmi of The Times of India gave the film 2.5 out of 5, wtiting, "Surely, there has to be a better way to resolve the ills of the world in contemporary cinema than resort to cliches.