Prime Video has announced that the popular comedy-drama series Panchayat will get a fourth season. The announcement was made on the occasion of the show's fifth anniversary. The new season will begin streaming on July 2, 2025. The platform came up with a unique idea, in the form of an Insta reel, to share the update.
Produced by The Viral Fever and written and directed by Deepak Kumar Mishra and Chandan Kumar, respectively, the show's first season was launched in April 2020, and became an instant hit with viewers who fell in love with the characters and setting, most notably Jitendra Kumar's relatable lead character Sachiv, an engineering graduate who had no option but to take on the duty of a panchayat secretary, and struggles to get adjusted to the surroundings and characters of Phulera, a fictional Uttar Pradesh village.
Aside from Jitendra Kumar, the other memorable characters in the show were played by Raghubir Yadav, Neena Gupta, Sanvikaa, Chandan Roy, Durgesh Kumar, Ashok Pathak, Faisal Malik and Sunita Rajwar.
The appeal of the show can be primarily attributed to its rootedness. To lend a sense of authenticity, the makers used a real panchayat office in Mahodiya of Sehore district, Madhya Pradesh.
In an interview with Hindustan Times, Deepak Kumar Mishra spoke about the impetus behind creating the show. He said, "We wanted to show realism. Usually, villagers are portrayed as 'bhole-bhale' log (simple people), who are ignorant and are shown in a very strange way. People raised their fingers saying that our story was slow, took time to sink in, and without any action, or a leading lady. But my writer and I were clear that we wanted to show a village in 2020 and probably the audience liked that realism. Today's rural youth is watching YouTube on mobile, they make TikTok videos, on 'khaprail' (clay-tiled) roofs they have dish antennas, flat-screen TVs are fitted on mud walls...so it's a different world now!"
The second season came out in May 2022 and the third season last year.
Deepak Kumar Mishra and Akshat Vijaywargiya are directing the fourth season.
