Panchayat
About Panchayat
Panchayat is a comedy-drama, which captures 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 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…
Prime Video's Panchayat is a comedy series. It has run to 5 seasons and 32 episodes since March 2020. That is around 6 episodes a season.
Jitendra Kumar leads the cast as Abhishek Tripathi, Raghubir Yadav as Brij Bhushan Dubey, Neena Gupta as Manju Devi, and Chandan Roy as Vikas.
Shelv files it under political comedy, satire, panchayat, and rural india. In the United States it streams on Amazon Prime Video and Amazon Prime Video with Ads.
Tracey Ullman's Show, Billy on the Street, and Pamela Rose: The Series make useful companions to Panchayat, all filed under comedy. It scores 8.2 out of 10 from 152 TMDB voters and it carries a TV-14 rating.