The bacchanalia never stops in this chic chick flick, even when the sun sets and the drinks are downed, especially then, the four young ladies never let the fun end.
Over the years, Four More Shots, now streaming on Amazon Prime, a mega-fun series about four women and their breathless heartbreaks, has become a part of our OTT’s DNA system. Not that Damini Rizvi Roy “Dee” (Sayani Gupta), Umang Singh (Bani J), Anjana Menon (Kirti Kulhari), and Siddhi Patel (Maanvi Gagroo) lead lives that are even remotely similar to ours.
But there is a lot here that makes the heart go bump-bump. The glamour and the glitz (a whole thesis can be written on the drinks that are served on the house), plus the rippling raunchy rituals of finding the right partners(be warned: there is a lot of making out), even if they are the wrong partners after a while, never gets repetitive or monotonous.
Season 4 of Four More Shots Please!, co-directed by Arunima Sharma and Neha Parti Matiyani, sparkles with a sense of unabashed joie de vivre. Sure, the world of the four ladies is far removed from the stress of grocery bills and EMI loans. The quartet of slick chicks (and I call them that with all due respects) and their First World problems(should Anjana be checking out a certain part of her Salsa partner when she is already into a relationship with a charming entrepreneur played by the charming Dino Morea? Should Siddhi be cosying up to her friend’s friendly brother, played agreeably by Kunaal Roy Kapoor who is definitely more talented than his brother Aditya)… these crisscrossing frivolities keep us engaged right up to a wedding in Goa, by which time everyone magically sorts out all her mating problems.
Right. The life partners are in place, just like the ladies’ immaculately turned-out dresses and makeup. More than anything else, Four More Shots is a celebration of visual positivity. To feel good about life, you need to be confident about yourself, and what better place to start the process of self-love than the mirror?
There’s something sexily seductive about a web series that stars only good-looking, sassy women grappling with problems related to their heart and, ahem, vagina. What happened to all the not-so-good-looking women? Are they shooting for Ekta Kapoor’s TV serials?
All the four principal actresses get into the mood of the moment, immerse themselves into preying on rather than playing their characters, enjoying every morsel of the delectable writing, juicing every dramatic and comic scene with a relish that replicates the closing moments of sexual intercourse.
The bonding among the four friends seems credible not because they swear by one another, but because they often swear AT one another. Close friendships are not just about sugar and honey. They can get bitter and ugly, as it often does among the quartet of friends here, played with unpunctuated breathless yet breezy expertise by Kulhari, Gupta, Gurbani, and Gagroo.
Ladies, you rock! The supporting cast is also very attractive. For a chick flick series, the men are projected with a smidgen of substantiality. No character serves the purpose of a space filler. The episodes move at a taut but fluent pace, whipping up a lather of luscious emotions, all fairly pleasant but not afraid to reach out to the darker moments when needed.
Four More Shots Please! addresses itself to the urges and grudges of urban working-class women. In that endeavour , you may feel these smart sexy urbane women are defiantly obliterating the reality beyond the metros. But then, who here is claiming to be a social reformer? These ladies only want to live life queen-size, tequila shots on the house. More power to them.
Sadly, this is the farewell season. Come back, ladies. We need your sass.
