4 Years OTT release date: Priya Prakash Varrier, Sarjano Khalid’s romantic film to hit this streaming platform

Director Ranjith Sankar’s latest campus romance 4 Years is all set to release on a leading OTT platform this Christmas. The movie, which has Priya Prakash Varrier and Sarjano Khalid in the lead, had hit theatres in November and had opened to generally positive reviews.

The film, which spans the last two days of college life of its protagonists Gayathri and Vishal – essayed by Priya and Sarjano, respectively – takes a look at their relationship and how the duo try to find closure in the final moments.

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Though set in a campus, the film isn’t the usual college romance and focuses solely on what its lead characters have been through and are feeling in the last two days, before they bid goodbye to each other and their Alma Mater.

The movie’s OTT rights have been bagged by Amazon Prime Video, which had also streamed Ranjith’s previous directorial Sunny starring Jayasurya. 4 Years is expected to begin streaming on the platform as a Christmas release on December 23.

The romantic drama has been designed the same way as the Before Sunrise trilogy, with its ending, promising another movie that will be set four years after the protagonists part ways. Shot entirely in Mar Athanasius College of Engineering in Kothamangalam, which is also director Ranjith’s Alma Mater, the director had earlier told us that he had set the movie in the contemporary era and also tried to show the nature of relationships in today’s college – especially after the pandemic.

“I think the campus life now is extremely different from even a 2018 campus because the pandemic has brought about a huge change, positively and negatively. People are now more free and independent, and they are also more intimate. However, relationships don’t have too much depth. I have tried to capture that essence,” he told OTTPlay in an earlier interview.