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Four more shots please - my views

Four more shots has everything that the modern Indian craves for - sex, success, freedom, individuality and it has everything that is wrong with our lives today - no intimacy, no happiness, no contentment, no spirituality.

The show reminds me of a very famous song by Remo which had a line - you are in a crowd but you are always all alone. That's what the series is all about. A successful lawyer, a successful entrepreneur, a successful fitness trainer and a well to do heiress, stuck in their mundane lives. They have broken the glass ceiling - the restrictions that we have all grown up with. No late nights, no booze, shhh no sex, no over spending. But we have material success today we have money to spend but no one to share the success with. So amidst the loud orgasms and loud fuck yous I find miserably lonely successful people don't know how to deal with a life they all aspired for.

As Yuval Harari writes in his books Sapiens and Homo Deus, individualism has killed Gods. Materialism has killed individuality and now we are struggling to find something that we can cling to emotionally so that we can look in the mirror and say yes buddy we have arrived and living the life of our dreams.

It also reminds me of the scene from the famous Satyajit Ray film Pather Panchali where Apu and his sister see the train flying past them. Most of us are like Apu and her sister, the difference is we have caught the train now we don't know where we are heading.

Amidst all the sex and hot bodies, the series looks like a reflection of our society that's trying to find meaning in our material wealth. I think it's time for another Osho to be born.

Thank you Amazon and Pritish Nandi Productions for this lovely series that I'm sure will make many intellectuals realise how meaningless their successes are and may be think of different ways to reach Nirvana. Reading The Seeker by Karan Bajaj could be a good start.

Would love to hear your views.

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