Amazon Prime Video’s Panchayat is a delightful watch. City boy Abhishek Tripathi accepts the job of secretary, Phulera gram panchayat, Uttar Pradesh, because he has no option. The lack of a proper house, food, electricity, his fight to keep the village’s open defecation free status, to get solar lights, etc is what Panchayat’s two seasons of eight episodes each tackle with warmth and humour. It was especially soothing after the obsessive binging on the deluge of short videos of the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation trial. The court proceedings, that concluded this June in the US, have been available in short
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