Panchayat Season 2 Review

A popular show which released during the 2020 lockdown is back with Season-2.

In the first season we saw how an urbanite Abhishek aka Sachiv Ji, an engineering graduate, in the course of preparing for his MBA exams, ends up taking a secretary job in a village panchayat in Phulera. While this rural job is much against his wishes, but with his positive attitude he does better than what one could expect from an urbanite. Season ends with a chance meeting of Village Pradhaan’s daughter Rinki and Abhishek aka Sachiv Ji.

 

Season-2 continues from where it had left. While his colleagues working in MNC’s in India and overseas are riding high and earning well, Abhishek on the other hand seems to be acclimatizing and doing well in his rural job. He manages to build good relationships with the key players in the village, as well as a quiet friendship with Rinki. 

Meanwhile, Rinki’s parents are worried about her marriage, they receive a matrimonial alliance offer from a well settled Urbanite in a Metro city. However, Rinki rejects the proposal since her father is humiliated by the boy’s family, even before their first meeting.

On another front there is a brewing conflict between the village panchayat and local MLA Chandra Kishore Singh for grant of funds for new road in the Village. Abhishek aka Sachiv Ji gets the taste of his first close encounter with this notorious MLA politician. 

Will the love between Abhishek and Rinki blossom? How will the Panchayat stand up against the MLA? What will be the importance of Abhishek? Will Abhishek give up his dream of a blue-collar job? For all this and more we have to wait for Season-3 to unfold. 

The good news is that a new season has already been confirmed by the director Deepak Kumar Mishra. We just can’t wait to witness that. TVF have done a fantastic job in depicting an Indian village life with simplicity and subtlety, which are the show's strengths. 

Sachiv Ji (Jitendra Kumar), former pradhaan (Raghubir Yadav), his wife the actual pradhaan (Neena Gupta), pradhaan gram sevak Vikas (Chandan Roy) and up-pradhaan Prahlad (Faisal Malik) have all done extremely well. The starcast breathes life into the show with their performances. They are a treat to watch. Newcomer Sanvikaa as Rinki is a revelation in her debut performance. Notorious MLA played by Pankaj Jha is first-rate. Other supporting actors too are good.  

Panchayat is a slice of the life show and one of the best shows on OTT platform which keeps the viewer engaged right till the end. 

Now streaming on Prime Video

****.5 stars