The Prime Video present 4 Extra Pictures Please! (FMSP) is lastly returning for a fourth and closing season, three years after Season 3 left the viewers break up. Arunima Sharma, who took over because the lead director of Season 4, speaks to Hindustan Instances concerning the closing season, which premieres on December 19. “We started capturing 4 Extra Pictures Please this yr and are releasing it throughout the yr!” says the filmmaker, settling down for a chat concerning the net collection that includes Sayani Gupta, Bani J, Kirti Kulhari, and Maanvi Gagroo.
From being an AD to directing Virat Kohli-Anushka Sharma
A self-proclaimed Shah Rukh Khan fan, Arunima grew up on a gradual food plan of Hindi movies that made her fall in love with cinema. Learning at FTII Pune and attending movie festivals solely deepened her fascination. Working with Homi Adajania as an Affiliate Director on movies like Cocktail and Discovering Fanny in 5 years was ‘hectic and hilarious’, she says. “I realized from him that solely when you might have enjoyable making a movie, does the movie work.”
If profitable a Nationwide Award for her diploma movie, Shyam Raat Seher, in 2010 was a ‘confidence booster’ for the filmmaker, advert movies supplied a platform for her to refine her abilities. “I’ve shot numerous advert movies, together with certainly one of my favourites with Virat and Anushka in Dubai. I used to be making an attempt to make a function movie for a few years, quite a few narrations occurred, however it was so troublesome in these years earlier than OTT to get one of many male leads, one of many heroes solid in your movie and to make the movie, particularly as a girl director,” she says.
However then the OTT growth occurred, and doorways opened for Arunima that had been beforehand closed shut. Lastly, her Prime Video collection Jee Karda (2023) was filmed throughout her third trimester of being pregnant, on the peak of the pandemic. The filmmaker says, “The OTT house did open doorways for lots of us, and now, FMSP is probably the most matriarchal set I’ve ever been on. The lads are clearly outnumbered.” Not simply FMSP, Arunima can also be helming a feature-length documentary with Naseeruddin Shah, which she calls her ‘ardour mission’.
On directing Season 4 of 4 Extra Pictures Please
Taking over Season 4 of an Emmy-nominated collection like FMSP as a director seems like a ‘duty’, says Arunima. “The thought was to protect every thing that works within the collection, the features that individuals love and elevate the visible and aural model to make it extra 2026. I needed the actors to really feel much more pure, easy-going and plausible,” she explains, including, “I really feel if you happen to’re heavy-handed as a director, this style turns into cumbersome to look at.”
Followers of the present, nevertheless, can anticipate every thing they love instances 4, the director says. “It’s the tip of an period, and it is going out with a bang. The friendship, the enjoyable, the highs and lows, the laughs, the drama – every thing is extra this season. We’re calling it the season of pleasure the place the women look inside themselves to see if there’s one thing holding them again from grabbing pleasure with each fingers and kissing it,” says Arunima.
Talking of kissing, there was appreciable criticism for the present ‘normalising infidelity’ after Damini, performed by Sayani, cheats on Jeh, performed by Prateik Smita Patil. Arunima says the following season will tackle every thing the present may not have coated earlier than. “The writing offers our protagonists the best to make errors, and acknowledgement doesn’t must occur immediately. Very like life, issues take time. And that point has handed between Season 3 and 4, giving Damini the time to mirror. The ladies have all grown up, just a bit, this season,” she says, rounding off.