Sinner vs Alcaraz and Shahana Goswami's new show dominated our weekend.
Not Just a Love Story, Four Years Later Belongs to Shahana Goswami | Despite its patchy pacing and scattered themes, this Lionsgate Play drama finds clarity in Shahana Goswami’s moving turn as a woman coming into her own. Swetha Ramakrishnan reviews.
| THERE’S A LOT that doesn’t make sense about the Lionsgate Premium show Four Years Later that dropped on the platform this weekend. The title for one, which pertains to a very miniscule theme of the show: an Indian couple who get married and then have to spend four years apart before they’re finally reunited. This trajectory wraps up in two of the series’ eight episodes; the remaining runtime tackles many different themes, including racism, gender roles in marriage, and a feminist coming-of-age. Four Years Later is also being billed as a romance or relationship drama, but on watching all of the eight episodes, I can safely say it’s actually Sridevi’s (Shahana Goswami) story. Her journey of breaking away from the shackles of being an Indian wife and how she finds her true professional and personal calling. The story is kind of all over the place and the themes are repetitive, but Shahana Goswami and Akshay Ajit Singh pull the series together with their authentic performances and believable chemistry. Stream live sports, blockbuster films and hit shows with OTTplay Premium's Power Play monthly pack, for only Rs 149. Sridevi and Yash (Singh) meet in an arranged marriage setting in Jaipur; he’s the typical restrained and responsible older brother of the family, on his way to becoming a doctor. Sridevi is a textbook manic pixie dream girl in the beginning — edgy enough to pique Yash’s interest, out-there and unafraid to chase what she wants. They eventually fall for each other and get married. Soon after, Yash gets the opportunity to do his residency in Sydney. His parents think Sridevi will be a distraction for him, so the newlyweds commence a four-year-long long-distance marriage. | Sinner's Wimbledon 2025 Triumph Signals a New Era at Centre Court | Jannik Sinner ended Alcaraz’s streak and Italy’s wait for a SW19 champion. Harsh Pareek looks back on a final rich with the promise of a new golden age for tennis.
| AND THEN THERE WAS ONE. After a fortnight of some scintillating tennis at SW19, the oldest and one of the most coveted tournaments in sports, came to an end with a rather fitting final between world number one Jannik Sinner and world number two Carlos Alcaraz. With Iga Świątek having already sealed the women's singles title in dramatic fashion the day before, it was time for the men to have a go in a repeat of this year's French Open final tie where Spain's Alcaraz came out on top in a five-setter epic. Two-time defending champion Alcaraz was eyeing his sixth Grand Slam title, while Sinner, playing his first Wimbledon final, hoping to add a fourth to his tally. This also marked the first occasion where the same two men contested the title matches at Roland-Garros and Wimbledon in the same year since the Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal trilogy in 2006, 2007 and 2008. With both having played some quite impressive tennis over the last two weeks — the Spaniard leaning on his aggressive style and the Italian on his surgical precision — Alcaraz was the pre-match favourite with more experience on the particular court and surface. Sinner though had played the better, and more consistent, tennis — apart from the fourth-round outlier where Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov retired two sets up against him, and he himself sustained an elbow injury — throughout the tournament, and was looking to put the excruciating loss of the clay court slam behind him as swiftly as possible. | Like what you read? Get more of what you like. Visit the OTTplay website or download the app to stay up-to-date with news, recommendations and special offers on streaming content. Plus: always get the latest reviews. Sign up for our newsletters. Already a subscriber? Forward this email to a friend, or use the share buttons below. | | | This weekly newsletter compiles a list of the latest (and most important) reviews from OTTplay so you can figure what to watch or ditch over the weekend ahead. | | Each week, our editors pick one long-form, writerly piece that they think it worthy of your attention, and dice it into easily digestible bits for you to mull over. | | In which we invite a scholar of cinema, devotee of the moving image, to write a prose poem dedicated to their poison of choice. Expect to spend an
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