First and foremost, Ziddi Girls, now streaming on Amazon, is a barrel of fun to watch. It is bright, bubbly, and irreverent as it brings down the ultra-conservatism of one of the somewhat starchy teachers, though, in the quest to rectify her moral rectitude, the series doesn’t villainize her.

Besides its pronounced verve, what I really liked about Ziddi Girls is that it constantly leaves room for the ‘Other’ point of view: dissent is fine. But the more normalized viewpoint doesn’t have to be booed away. If Simran playing Lata, the new conservative principal of, ahem, Matilda House (roll of the eyes), is up for ridicule, so is Prof Handa (Nandita Das), whose nose-in-the-air (preferably with a nosering) gender politics is also questioned by a screenplay that is never in the mood to simmer down.

Abundantly aggravated and chronically iconoclastic Ziddi Girls follows the craggy path of a bunch of freshers.