Four Years Later: OTT release date, trailer, episodes, plot and everything you need to know about Shahana Goswami and Akshay Ajit Singh's series

Lionsgate Play (OTTplay Premium) will release the slow-burning, emotionally rich drama series Four Years Later on July 11, 2025. It explores the journey of love, sorrow, and identity across countries. In this eight-part Australian-Indian series, we follow a couple as they succeed in an arranged marriage in the face of time, distance, and societal expectations.

Story of strained love across continents

Four Years Later is helmed by Mithila Gupta and Fadia Abboud and is about a newlywed couple, Sridevi (Shahana Goswami) and Yash (Akshay Ajit Singh), who are attempting to figure out what happened to their relationship when Yash moved to Australia for a four-year medical traineeship. As Sridevi fights domestic societal constraints and Yash fights alienation, guilt, and displacement overseas, what starts as a hopeful chapter becomes a protracted period of emotional and physical stillness.

Goswami remarked, reflective of her character, that from the time she auditioned for Sridevi, she felt her character was so much like her in spirit, and yet she felt they don't really get to see women like that on screen. The actor shared that the series deftly covers a wide range of topics, including modern love (from both perspectives), friendship, ambition, family dynamics, loneliness, personal growth, immigration, culture, community, sensuality, and physical intimacy, all while keeping the viewer engaged and invested.

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Two contrasting migratory journeys

She continued by saying that the series also explores two distinct migratory experiences. For one character, it's a challenging, lonely, and isolating experience where they yearn for home and feel overwhelmed by work pressures; for another, it's a refreshing experience that expands their senses, ambition, and self-awareness, enabling them to be liberated and true to themselves.

Ajit was drawn to Four Years Later due to its honest and unfiltered exploration of relationships. Distance, emotional separation, and the ways in which people change over time are also major themes, in addition to conventional love. As his character Yash struggles to make sense of his decisions in the face of conflicting demands from his family, his ambitions, and his physical distance, he begins to fall apart.

Letting feelings breathe on screen

The sheer vulnerability his character exhibits truly captured his attention. Having been taught as a child that exhibiting emotion was a sign of weakness, it was difficult yet ultimately honest to do so on screen for the actor. Yash's character resonates deeply with many people. In certain instances, the absence of dialogue conveys a tremendous deal. Akshay concluded by saying that Four Years Later succeeds magnificently because it avoids the easy simplification of feelings. They are able to breathe because of it.

Four Years Later examines the consequences of love that endures despite physical separation and the passage of time from the viewpoints of both Sridevi and Yash. Roy Joseph, Luke Arnold, Kate Box, and Taj Aldeeb are also part of the cast.