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Four More Shots Please! Season 3 review: The latest season lends reasonable gravitas to the messy and complicated sisterhood
What: Four More Shots Please! Season 3 –It’s amusing, bewildering.
Four More Shots Please! Season 3 synopsis
Friendships do get complicated at times. But Good friends are only a call away. A SOS call brings the four girls back again. And this time, it's not a good one.
The sudden demise of Siddi's (Maanvi Gagroo) dad re-unites the four friends - Anj, Dee, Sidds and Mangs, who are dealing with their individual set of predicament.
Anjali Menon aka Anj( Kirti Kulhari) is the perfect lawyer but imperfect mother, who is straddling both personal and professional woes. Things get worse when her Ex-husband, Varun ( Neil Bhoopalam) comes back to stay with her after a tiff with his current wife, Kavya (Amrita Puri).
Damini Rizvi Roy aka Dee ( Sayani Gupta), the fierce Journalist and Writer - OCD in life and messy in love - is under deep self introspection after her miscarriage and book launch fiasco. Counting and making stories on potholes in the city, she is trying to mend the rough patches in her life with the help of her companion, Jeh( Prateik Babbar).
Siddi (Gagroo) is finding it hard to recover from the trauma of her dad's death and the mother-daughter duo ( Simone Singh plays her mom, Sneha), despite an animosity laced relation, now find solace in each other's arms. She also strikes a business partnership with BFF, Manga uka Umang( Bani J), the queer and curious Sikhni who still yearns for acceptance from her family and her dad.
Director Joyeeta Patpatia and writer Devika Bhagat lend an emphatic and intimate gaze at the lives of the four friends who are - feisty, flawed and judged at each juncture, but continue to be there for each other.
The show starts on a serious note, examining their dilemmas against vignettes of colours and vibrancy. But you as progress, it feels repetitive. What power’s the narrative is the genuine performances of the leads. They forge a solid chemistry and inhabit their characters and the milieu sincerely, shedding all inhibitions. Their camaraderie is prominent and they mouth the sharply written dialogues ( Ishita Moitra) vociferously.
The costumes need a special mention here, and so does the suave lensing, that captures the Maximum city with an unmistakable exotica.
What the series lacks is the depth with which the male brigade ( including Jim Sarbh's criminally underutilized part) is treated. Barring a few real and palpable moments, it fell flat and confused me.
I go with 3 stars out of 5 for FMSP Season 3. It is amusing, bewildering and less cringy.
Produced by Pritish Nandy Communications, the 10-episode show is streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
Ahwaan Padhee, is an IT Techie/Business Consultant by profession and a film critic/cinephile by passion, is also associated with Radio Playback as well, loves writing and conducting movie quizzes. More By Ahwaan Padhee