CAST – Kirti Kulhari, Manavi Gagroo, Sayani Gupta, Bani J, Rohan Mehra, Jim Sarbh, Rajeev Siddhartha, Lisa Ray, Neil Bhoopalam, Simone Singh, Sushant Singh
DIRECTOR: Joyeeta Patpatia
Four More shots please is the story of the world where four women, three of whom do not have stable jobs, have the money to wear designer clothes and drink copious amount of alcohol every night.
The shallow lives of these four women in a la Sex in the City mode is an interesting take on women who control their own lives, unshackle all judgements, and invariably find booze, sex and promiscuity liberating.
In the alleys of what seems Mumbai, these women find hot men with God Bods, who are deep in love with them, enough to follow them all over the world while they call the shots.
In the middle of all of that are tropes about same sex relationships, aunty attitudes, lecherous uncles and single widows.
The other most interesting feature of the series is the depth of sex and swear, mostly unwarranted and tasteless interspersed with nudity and several indiscriminate boinks here and there.
Watching one episode is fine, but watching 10 of those to review is painful. Women are classified as virgin, ugly or slutty Savitri for just being more emaciated than them.
There is the workaholic Damini (Sayani Gupta) in a relationship with a bar owner Jeh ( Prat Babbar) after she almost had a child with another man ( Milind Soman) in the last season. They seem to have everything fine between them except they cannot seem to have sex but then she has a steamy ONS with a budding politician, her client ( a suave Rohan Mehra)
The bisexual Umang (Bani J) who lives her life under the shadow of rejection one hook up at a time and cannot get over the very woman she left at the altar (Lisa Ray). Now she tries to move on with getting into a relationship with a bakery owner till the yoga instructor (Jim Sarbh) declares his love for her and gets a few whambams in return.
The on-surface sorted lawyer, Anjana (Kriti Kulhari) , who has a complicated relationship with her ex-husband ( Neil Bhoopalam) while he yoyos between his present and ex wife with their respective kids is actually pretty sensitive treatment of a man who just cannot seem to grow up.
Her relationship with her ex and colleague who she was in a relationship with last season is mature handling of people moving on quickly.
The character who deserves the most empathy in this season is Maanvi Gagroo’s Siddhi as she loses her screen father earlier in the season. As she deals with her loss and tries to protect her mother (a very pretty Simone Singh moving on with Sushant Singh) her mental health and the way she tries to deal with the pain is congruent with her character. Her anger is channeled through her stand up seshs and her behavior off the stage is brash, edgy and quite obnoxious very consistent with her character arc.
For some reason, the series has a lot of sex scenes without showing enough skin and is quite eclectically shot.
Sayani Gupta looks exotic.
On the whole, if you are game, spend your weekend with this breezy series without any expectations.
