Panchayat (TV series)

Panchayat is an Indian Hindi-language comedy drama web series created by The Viral Fever for Amazon Prime Video. Written by Chandan Kumar and directed by Deepak Kumar Mishra & Akshat Vijaywargiya, the series stars Jitendra Kumar, Raghubir Yadav, Neena Gupta, Chandan Roy, Faisal Malik, and Sanvikaa, alongside Durgesh Kumar, Ashok Pathak, Sunita Rajwar and Pankaj Jha. It follows an engineering graduate who becomes the secretary of a gram panchayat in the fictional village of Phulera in Uttar Pradesh due to limited job opportunities.

Cast and characters

<table><thead><tr><th>Portrayed by</th><th>Character</th><th>1</th><th>2</th><th>3</th><th>4</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Jitendra Kumar</td><td>Abhishek Tripathi</td><td>Main</td></tr><tr><td>Raghubir Yadav</td><td>Brij Bhushan Dubey</td></tr><tr><td>Neena Gupta</td><td>Manju Devi</td></tr><tr><td>Faisal Malik</td><td>Prahlad Pandey</td></tr><tr><td>Chandan Roy</td><td>Vikas Shukla</td></tr><tr><td>Sanvikaa</td><td>Rinki Dubey</td><td>Recurring</td><td>Main</td></tr><tr><td>Durgesh Kumar</td><td>Bhushan Sharma "Banrakas"</td></tr><tr><td>Ashok Pathak</td><td>Binod</td><td>None</td><td>Recurring</td><td>Main</td></tr><tr><td>Sunita Rajwar</td><td>Kranti Devi</td></tr><tr><td>Bulloo Kumar</td><td>Madhav Jasoos</td></tr><tr><td>Pankaj Jha</td><td>MLA Chandra Kishore Singh</td></tr><tr><td>Tripti Sahu</td><td>Khushboo Shukla</td><td>None</td><td>Recurring</td></tr><tr><td>Kirandeep Kaur</td><td>Chitra Singh</td><td>None</td><td>Recurring</td></tr><tr><td>Gaurav Singh</td><td>Chuttan Singh</td><td>Recurring</td></tr><tr><td>Aasif Khan</td><td>Ganesh</td><td>Recurring</td><td>Special</td><td>None</td></tr><tr><td>Subendhu Chakraborty</td><td>Mangal</td><td>Recurring</td></tr><tr><td>Shrikant Verma</td><td>Parmeshwar</td></tr><tr><td>Diwakar Dhyani</td><td>Sudhir Jaiswal (BDO)</td></tr><tr><td>Sushil Tondon</td><td>Bhindeshwar</td></tr><tr><td>Ankit Motghare</td><td>Theka (Shopkeeper)</td></tr><tr><td>Sandeep Shikhar</td><td>Deenbandhu</td></tr><tr><td>Rajesh Jais</td><td>Virendra Gupta (BDO)</td><td>None</td><td>Recurring</td></tr><tr><td>Shiv Swaroop</td><td>Rahul</td><td>None</td><td>Recurring</td></tr><tr><td>Abha Sharma</td><td>Damyanti Devi "Ammaji"</td></tr><tr><td>Swanand Kirkire</td><td>Saansad ji</td><td>None</td><td>Guest</td><td>Special</td></tr><tr><td>Saad Bilgrami</td><td>Aditya</td><td>None</td></tr><tr><td>Ram Gopal Bajaj</td><td>Manju Devi's father</td><td>None</td><td>Guest</td></tr><tr><td>Biswapati Sarkar</td><td>Prateek</td><td>Special</td><td>None</td></tr><tr><td>Satish Ray</td><td>Siddharth "Siddhu" Gupta</td><td>Special</td><td>None</td></tr></tbody></table>

Season 1 (2020)

<table><thead><tr><th>No.</th><th>Title</th><th>Directed by</th><th>Written by</th><th>Original release date</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>1</td><td>"Gram Panchayat Phulera"</td><td>Deepak Kumar Mishra</td><td>Chandan Kumar</td><td>3 April 2020 (2020-04-03)</td></tr><tr><td>Abhishek Tripathi is a fresh engineering graduate who has not been placed in his final year. With only a job offer of a panchayat secretary, he tries to give it a shot as there is no other option left after graduating. He reaches Phulera and meets the former village chief (husband of the current village chief), the deputy chief and his office assistant. When Abhishek reaches Phulera, the doors of the panchayat office are locked and the keys missing. By the time the doors are opened (blown from the frame), the situation inside the office room turns him down. Abhishek decides that he needs to switch his job at the earliest and the only way to do so is by cracking the CAT (Common Admission Test) and taking admission in one of the IIMs.</td></tr><tr><td>2</td><td>"Bhootha Ped"</td><td>Deepak Kumar Mishra</td><td>Chandan Kumar</td><td>3 April 2020 (2020-04-03)</td></tr><tr><td>Abhishek, working as panchayat secretary, is also preparing for CAT after office hours. He has arranged for emergency lights as there is a power shutdown in the village every night. He plans to install a solar-powered light in the panchayat office from the total lights allotted. His plan is thwarted when one of the panchayat members suggests installing the light at a place called Bhootha Ped (haunted tree) which will help the Pradhan garner votes in the upcoming election. Abhishek now undertakes the mission to uncover the truth.</td></tr><tr><td>3</td><td>"Chakke Wali Kursi"</td><td>Deepak Kumar Mishra</td><td>Chandan Kumar</td><td>3 April 2020 (2020-04-03)</td></tr><tr><td>Abhishek buys a comfy revolving chair since working and studying in the crude plastic chairs proved quite uncomfortable. This chair soon becomes a bone of contention between him and the Pradhan, who feels diminished in the eyes of the people compared to Abhishek since he does not possess a fancy chair. The Pradhan hatches an elaborate plan to spirit the chair away from Abhishek, which culminates in Abhishek having to give away his chair to a disgruntled bridegroom to placate him for swearing at him.</td></tr><tr><td>4</td><td>"Hamara Neta Kaisa Ho?"</td><td>Deepak Kumar Mishra</td><td>Chandan Kumar</td><td>3 April 2020 (2020-04-03)</td></tr><tr><td>Abhishek is instructed by the BDO to put up family planning slogans. Since this is a pet project of the DM, he threatens him with disciplinary action if the work is not done on time. Abhishek gets the slogans painted and then walks around with Pradhan, Prahlad and Vikas to check on the work. The second slogan, "Do bacche meethi Kheer, do se jyaada bawaseer" compares children born, after the first two, to a case of piles which provokes a strong reaction among villagers who have more than 2 kids. This puts Pradhan in a tough position since they all threaten to vote against him at the next election and he has the slogan removed. Manju Devi calls out the Pradhan on his weak leadership. Pradhan sees a picture of Sardar Patel and gets inspired. He has Abhishek call a meeting of the ward and tells the gathering that he stands by the slogan. Prahlad and Vikas also support the Pradhan. Abhishek tells the Panchayat that they should tell anyone offended by the slogan that it is like a warning on a cigarette packet that is meant to offend and scare. Pradhan instructs Vikas to put the slogan back. After the meeting, the BDO calls Abhishek to tell him that the piles' slogan was not mandatory after a father of 6 in another village, offended by the slogan, burnt down the Panchayat office. Abhishek asks Pradhan if he wants to reconsider his decision but the Pradhan, inspired by Sardar Patel says that his decision is final.</td></tr><tr><td>5</td><td>"Computer Nahi Monitor"</td><td>Deepak Kumar Mishra</td><td>Chandan Kumar</td><td>3 April 2020 (2020-04-03)</td></tr><tr><td>Frustrated by the lack of nightlife in the village, Abhishek decides to drink beer but forgets to lock the door of his room and finds his monitor stolen from the panchayat office the next morning. A furious Pradhan reprimands Abhishek for being careless and asks him to find new accommodation. Abhishek and Prahlad lodge an FIR at the local police station. A police officer arrives later at the panchayat office and suspects Abhishek of stealing the monitor for money. The officer along with Pradhan and others interrogates an irritated Abhishek who then explains his frustration because of his village routine and lonely life. Abhishek's outburst convinces Pradhan of his innocence. That night, Pradhan arranges a party along with Prahlad and Vikas to cheer Abhishek up. The next morning, Abhishek finds his stolen monitor returned, with a note saying the monitor was mistaken for a television.</td></tr><tr><td>6</td><td>"Bahot Hua Samman"</td><td>Deepak Kumar Mishra</td><td>Chandan Kumar</td><td>3 April 2020 (2020-04-03)</td></tr><tr><td>Abhishek is having his photograph taken for the exam and Vikas gets into a verbal altercation with two men trying to sit on Abhishek's bike. The men threaten to "fix" him when he shows up to get his photos the next day. Vikas wants to involve Pradhan in this but Abhishek stops him. The next day when he goes to pick up his photos, the photographer says that since he got into a tussle with men from his village, he is supporting them and he has deleted his pics. The men call him at night to taunt him. Now Abhishek has to take Pradhan's help to resolve the matter.</td></tr><tr><td>7</td><td>"Ladka Tez Hai Lekin.."</td><td>Deepak Kumar Mishra</td><td>Chandan Kumar</td><td>3 April 2020 (2020-04-03)</td></tr><tr><td>Pradhanji fixed his daughter's marriage to a guy whose family demanded 20 lakh rupees as dowry. When Pradhanji asked Abhishek about the situation he told him he won't take dowry from anyone even if he would get a good salary which impresses Pradhanji. Then he started testing Abhishek's ability whether he'll crack the CAT examination or not, meanwhile a couple is fighting over their son's name which Abhishek suggested. Finally, Pradhanji decided to ask Abhishek about marriage by letting her daughter choose any finger between the two, The same way the arguing couple decides their son's name. But, on the day of the examination, Pradhanji and Vikas found that Abhishek's exam had not gone well. So he has no option but to change his decision.</td></tr><tr><td>8</td><td>"Jab Jaago Tabhi Savera"</td><td>Deepak Kumar Mishra</td><td>Chandan Kumar</td><td>3 April 2020 (2020-04-03)</td></tr><tr><td>Abhishek is not in a good mood even after 2 months of his CAT examination, Vikas tries to cheer him up. Abhishek vents out all his frustrations on him and later apologizes. Somedays before Republic Day Manju Devi taunts Abhishek for not clearing the CAT examination, where he taunts back as Manju Devi is the actual Pradhan but, every year Pradhanji hosted the flag ceremony. This prompted Manju Devi to learn the National anthem of India as she decided to host the flag ceremony, but fails to remember the National anthem. On the day of Republic Day, the District Magistrate notices the banner as Pradhanji has a larger image and decides to go as an inquiry, where she is about to suspend Abhishek. Manju Devi arrives. Then she hosted the flag ceremony and everyone celebrates. Abhishek realised his mistake and decided to try one more year for the CAT examination. At last, he climbs on the water tank as his colleagues suggested earlier to fall in love with the village, where he meets Rinki, the daughter of Pradhanji as the episode comes to an end. It is hinted that Abhishek is attracted towards Rinki, which confirms the saying that he would indeed fall in love.</td></tr></tbody></table>

Panchayat (TV series)