Written by Mithila Gupta and starring Indian actors Shahana Goswami and Akshay Ajit Singh in the roles of Sri and Yash, Four Years Later is a love story but also a test — of enduring distance, doubt and hope. When Yash moves to Australia from India right after his wedding to Sri, she visits him four years later and we find out if love still remains.
Many South Asians migrate for work or school but it’s the moving for love that has our resilience pushed to its limits.
With intimacy and sensuality making a significant part of the tone of the show, writer Mithila Gupta says it stems from her desire to see "brown bodies in the water":
Because we never get to see Desis just swimming, unless it's like Bondi rescue and they're being kicked out of the water. The layers of the show have been a part of pitching it, but also a part of grounding it. And, you know, a show can't be everything, but there have just been certain things that I really want to explore — and the intimacy is one of those.Mithila Gupta (Writer, Four Years Later)
Dilpreet Kaur Taggar brings you this story with Mithila Gupta and actors Shahana Goswami and Akshay Ajit Singh from the set of Four Years Later on the diversity of Indian stories, the changing landscape of the Australian TV and the pressing need to break through the typical binaries of identity and its perception.
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