Panchayat
On: Amazon Prime Video
Episodes: 8
Director: Deepak Kumar Mishra
Cast: Jitendra Kumar, Neena Gupta, Raghubir Yadav, Chandan Roy
Rating: 

The greatest thing about the team of TVF has been how they always successfully suck you into the fictional yet real world they create for their viewers. The actors they choose for their characters never feel like actors, there's absolutely no trace of farce or facade, you would either want to befriend them or at least meet them once to understand them better. Panchayat, their latest series on Amazon Prime Video, is pretty much similar to these feelings.

Jitendra Kumar plays Abhishek Tripathi, who lands a job in the Phulera district of Uttar Pradesh as the secretary of the Gram Panchayat. He and his friend, Biswapati Sarkar, have opposite reactions to the news. Once he lands there, he meets a palette of interesting and idiosyncratic characters that prepare us for the misadventures he's going to experience in his work. Writer Chandan Kumar and director Deepak Kumar Mishra rightly capture the milieu of the state and also the lingo of the characters.