While the show Hostel Daze brilliantly captures the messy, nostalgic, and hilarious life of engineering hostelites in a fictional North Indian college (Haryana Engineering College), the visual magic was created over 2,000 kilometers away in South India.

The Amazon Prime web series Hostel Daze was primarily filmed at the Symbiosis International University (SIU) campus in Pune

For instance, the canteen scenes and the "Para" (roof) hangouts are staples of Indian college life. The shooting locations had to accommodate these specific social geographies. The creators found locations that naturally offered these spaces, allowing the actors to inhabit their roles fully. The transition from the grand exteriors of a "top" institution to the messy interiors of a student dorm creates a visual contrast that mirrors the central theme of the show: the contrast between the intimidating external world of adulthood and the safe, messy internal world of friendship.