Panchayat is a brilliantly made series based on the life of people in a small village Phulera. As you watch one episode after another, you start to make connections with various characters and feel like you are living amoung them.

The story revolves around life of Abhishek Tripathi (Jitendra Kumar) and Dubey Ji (Raghubir Yadav), with support from Vikas (Chandan Roy) and Praladh (Faisal Malik). The entire cast is brilliant and my favorite is Chandan Roy. The innocence of his character, Vikas, is so heart warming. Raghubir ji is superb as the husband of village pradhan (Neena Gupta), i.e. Effectively village pradhan. I sometimes saw my own father in his act, as someone trying to make peace with any situation. With the risk of bein unpopular, I find Jitendra's act flat sometimes, or maybe with such great actors around, his gets shadowed.

Season 2 is more engaging than season 1, as we get more invested in lives of these characters while things are happening in the village.

I wish that the four main characters could get to enjoy cold beer in next season!