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The ladies of Four More Shots Please react to the backlash the show receives for talking “too much about sex”
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Mumbai (Maharashtra): OTT series, Four More Shots Please is coming back with its third season that fans have been waiting for for two years now. The show has been a guilty pleasure for many young and old women who love to embark on the journey of the four main women of the show. It stars Kirti Kulhari, Bani J, Sayani Gupta and Maanvi Gagroo in leading roles. While it has been immensely loved, there also has been backlash regarding the content. Several claims that the show obscenely talks only about sex. Answering it, the four women spoke about the show in a recent interview.
Talking to Indian Express, Kirti Kulhari mentioned that the show only talks about the things that are already prevalent in society. She said that although everyone has the right to hold their own opinion, she believes that India is the second most populated country and the show is representing what is already out there in the world.
Sayani Gupta added that it is not about sex but about women having the choice to choose their sexual partners and to discover their sexuality. “This (the show) is so rare. Of course, there is no representation of it in cinema at all. Even in real life, how many talk about their preferences or orgasms? You will be shocked to find the percentage of women who haven’t experienced an orgasm in their entire life, and most of them have multiple children. It’s just the mindset where we don’t talk about sex and women. It’s always tauba tauba,” she said.
Bani J, who plays a bisexual character in the show revealed that the main reason behind the trolling of the show is that the male-dominated society is not comfortable with women taking charge of their sexuality. “The issue is seeing women taking charge and the shots. Having sex with who they want and wherever, and voicing out what they want. Men are not used to seeing women being so assertive of themselves. To have women say no when they want, a lot of men have issues with these things. But I want to say that we also have opinions, preferences and agencies. We have the right to say yes and no. You should listen to us as well because we have a voice. We deserve to be seen and heard.”
Maanvi Gagroo shared that she experienced first-hand how women openly started embracing the show and lived vicariously through the lives of the four main leads. She explained that women from all age groups expressed their love for the show and even though they had liked the first season, they did not express it out loud. But by the second season, things had changed, she mentioned. “And now, they have been eagerly waiting for the third season. They wish to live their lives vicariously through us. They say they had no freedom or maybe they didn’t think they could exercise their freedom when they were our age. So that speaks more of what the show is about than people just claiming it’s about sex,” Maanvi expressed.
