Pritish Nandy

Four More Shots Please!' has been one of the most anticipated original series in the longest! With the show running high on anticipation from fans across the country, we have some more good news for followers of the show! Creator-Showrunner Rangita Pritish Nandy has wrapped the shoot of the last leg of the third season in Italy.This only means one thing; fans are closer to being treated to the third season of 'Four More Shots Please!' This season of the show has been shot extensively across South Mumbai, Punjab, and now the lakeside of Milan, Italy.Speaking about this last leg of the shoot, Rangita said, "The fandom around Four More Shots Please has humbled and inspired us. Season 3 is by far, our most personal season of the show. You met the girls in season 1, you saw them struggle, falter and pick themselves and each other up in season 2, season 3 will bring you the closest you've ever been to them, to their core, to their sisterhood. This is a very, very special season for us. We shot through multiple lockdowns in the pandemic, braved a new way of working on set and off and it's just a pleasure to let every follower of the show know that we are at that last leg of bringing Anjana, Damini, Siddhi, and Umang right back into your lives and we couldn't be more excited to do so!"'Four More Shots Please!' was renewed for Season 3 in May 2020, just days after the second season of the show was released. The show is available on the OTT platform Amazon Prime and stars Kirti KulhariSayani GuptaVJ Bani, and Maanvi Gagroo in lead roles. It revolves around the life of four independent girls who happen to be friends. The show narrates the story of their hardships in life and also how they support each other in all circumstances.

Four More Shots Please! starring Kirti Kulhari, Sayani Gupta, Maanvi Gagroo and Bani J not only emerged as the most popular show of 2020 for Amazon Prime Video but also earned raving reviews for being a trailblazer. The showrunner, Rangita Pritish Nandy, been lauded for setting a precedent for creating a series where modern-day women call their own shots.The third season of the show, which received an International Emmy 2020 nomination in the best comedy series category, recently went on floors. Nandy says that she feels alive getting back to a set after a brief hiatus owing to the Covid-19 lockdown. There is this absolutely wonderful sense of warmth and shared history and success that we all enjoy and post the year weve all had, just being on set exchanging ideas, discussing characters, celebrating the successes of the past year, even squabbling over costumes and whether to eat healthy or not on a set it just all feels like coming home. Weve actually grown into our own little sisterhood, men included, and that is a wonderful feeling to go to work with every day, she elaborates.With production houses hitting the ground running and resuming shoots, project crews and units are mandatorily required to adhere to all Covid-19 guidelines. Talking about shooting amidst the new normal, she says, Our protocols are driven by the governments prescribed norms and Amazons exhaustive list of SOPs. Were testing exhaustively, masking for safety, using private travel modes only, theres zero sharing of food and liquids and were living in a shoot bubble to keep our crew and ourselves as safe as possible. All this while we keep a close watch on the changing pandemic environment around us to devise new and additional precautions that could come into place.The shoot of Four More Shots Please! is currently underway in Mumbai and will continue till the end of May. Post that, the team will be shooting in another Indian city and then jet off to an overseas location.

Noted humanitarian, poet, journalist, photographer, TV host, painter, editor, columnist, and filmmaker Pritish Nandy just added another feather to his cap. The Government of Bangladesh has invited Pritish for a special State honour on the occasion of their 40th anniversary of the Liberation struggle. The Foreign Minister of Bangladesh, who is also the National Convenor of the Friends of the Bangladesh Liberation Struggle, recently wrote to Nandy saying that though it is forty years late, it is never too late to recognize and honour someone who did so much for their freedom struggle.

The awards ceremony, which kick starts from this year on December 15, is to honour those who participated in the liberation struggle of Bangladesh and helped the nation become free. Nandy will be attending the event along with his wife Rina. Talking about the honour, Nandy says, "The birth of Bangladesh was a miracle. Most wars end in stalemate but Indira Gandhi won it decisively and with amazing precision. I was proud to play a role in the making of a new nation, a nation born out of the love for a language and a proud culture: Bengali."

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the formation of Bangladesh. Nandy, barely entering his twenties then, was one of the most ardent campaigners for a free Bangladesh. He reported first hand on the war for freedom, translated the works of the then little known poets of the Bangladesh movement who are now iconic figures in Bengali literature across the border and got them published from London, Chicago and other parts of the world to bring focus to their war efforts, and was one of the central figures of the movement when he lived in Calcutta in the early seventies. All the leaders of the freedom struggle were his personal friends, including Sheikh Mujibur Rehman who became the first Prime Minister of Bangladesh.

Interestingly, the man who subsequently assassinated him, Major Dalim, was also known to Nandy during the freedom struggle days when he came to Calcutta as a young army officer for medical treatment after a serious grenade injury. Nandy was a leading poet then and some of his own poems in the book 'Madness is the Second Stroke' were inspired by the Bangladesh war. The famous British painter Feliks Topolski collaborated with Nandy to bring out poems from Bangladesh, a book of poems from London. Nandy is one of Indian poetry's most celebrated names whose books, record albums and readings have drawn him an iconic following and won him the Padma Shri and the EM Forster Literary Award at an age most people barely begin their literary career.