Panchayat

 Panchayat is a 2020 Indian Hindi-language comedy-drama web series of eight episodes created by The Viral Fever(TVF) for the Amazon Prime Video. The series was directed by Deepak Kumar Mishra, which features Jitendra Kumar, Raghubir Yadav, Neena Gupta, Biswapati Sarkar and Chandan Roy. It encapsulate the journey of an engineering graduate Abhishek, who for lack of a better job option joins as secretary of a panchayat office in a remote village Phulera of Uttar Pradesh. Stuck between crazy villagers and a difficult village lifestyle Abhishek starts his job with the sole motivation of getting out of there as soon as possible, for which he even prepares for CAT.

TVF is known to provide a content which is related to reality and close to heart. If you have been to rural belts or stayed in; you can relate to this series to a great extent and even if not, you get to see as in series it has said Real India. The concept of the series is very fresh and young people can definitely relate to this who live in villages.

The story revolves around manju devi played by evergreen Neena Gupta and her husband brij Bhushan played by Raghuvir Yadav.
Manju devi is the newly elected "pradhan" of the village as her husband Birj Bhushan who lost during the election, but is still famous among the villagers as the village is male eccentric and women are still considered to manage household chores. The series shows various other aspects like these of village life. It connects you the problem faced by the people in villages like male eccentric society where the husband's takes control over the Panchayat work even though their wives stands in the election(Rule of Pradhanapati),  electricity still being the prime issue in the country and solar lights perhaps creeping to the surface with limited supply. Also the .dowry pratha not completely vanishing from the rural India.

Panchayat is a perfect example of what is required to make a series to go with perfect flow and line-up. The show is a binge watch so, I give it 10/10.
                               
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