The rural drama that became India's most-loved show
Panchayat tells the story of an engineering graduate who takes up a job as a low-level bureaucrat in a fictional villageA comedy-drama, centred around the life of a city-bred young man's adventures in a remote village, has emerged as India's most-liked Hindi web show of last year.
Tripathi spends his days trying to sort out mundane problems of the villagers with help and guidance from the council members; and his nights fretting over power outages and his lonely existence - and occasionally running away from snakes.The story is based in Phulera - a small fictional village in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh
In a country with a stark rural-urban divide, Panchayat, which is being streamed on Amazon Prime, offers a glimpse into village life to its subscribers who mostly live in cities and know little about rural India. But above all, she says, Panchayat was "an excellent show", which stood out for its "brilliant performances" and was "very nuanced in the understanding of its characters".Panchayat offers a glimpse into village life to audiences who mostly live in cities
He describes Panchayat as a "middle-of-the-road" show which tells simple stories of ordinary people. They were very popular in the 80s and 90s, he says, but then went out of fashion and were replaced by family drama or action."Most series nowadays are about spies and the underworld so Panchayat takes you by surprise in the midst of all the action-packed shows. It's a story of real people doing very real tangible things," he says.
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