Introduction
Panchayat Season 3 on Amazon Prime Video is perhaps one of the most eagerly awaited web series of the year. On May 28, the show, which has had two successful seasons, will return to the streaming service. Before the episode airs, Deepak Kumar Mishra, the season’s director and one of the show’s writers, talks on the importance of unfolding the tale “organically” to keep viewers interested for a very long period. Along with discussing who will be opposing Neena Gupta’s character Pradhan ji and how her job is in jeopardy, Deepak also drops a few spoilers.
Speaking on the audience’s overall excitement for the upcoming season of the show, Deepak says he has a strong sense of duty to make sure they don’t think it has turned into a “commercial mix bag of tragedy and comedy.”
“I hope people continue to watch the show until the tenth season because it feels good to have them back,” he stated. However, when I witness people’s excitement, I begin to feel a sense of obligation to continue the story in a way that would keep fans interested for each new season. Thus, it is an obligation on my part.
Being authentic is, in my opinion, crucial when narrating a narrative. By scripting two jokes, anyone can generate a jumble of feelings by adding an emotional situation to the comedy. However, it’s crucial to note how the scene naturally develops from these two gags. You won’t be able to sense the emotions underlying the mixed bag without it. Thus.
“Our first thought was that the new season should not be at all like the second season,” he stated. The story needs to have an organic path forward because we have been telling it for more than five years. It’s about time someone put Pradhan ji to the test. Therefore, we have determined that this season will serve as a lead-up to the elections.
“We kept feeling while writing how Pradhan ji’s character has become so popular so who’ll be able to bring her down and how,” the director continued. Who would be able to oppose her, so we required specific incidents to mould the competition.
Neena Gupta has frequently mentioned how difficult it was for her to film Panchayat on set under the harsh weather. “Execution wise, there were not too many challenges while working on Panchayat because a lot of hard work has gone into writing the script and the actors are always in a flow as they are all veterans,” Deepak responded when questioned about the difficulties he had while writing and directing this season. Thus, the weather is always a challenge for me. How do we film when it’s 47 degrees outside or when there’s a lot of rain and everything is muddy and we can’t even get our cars to the location? There have been instances where In order to film, we had to use light to assist dry up the terrain. The village’s layout and comfortable shooting angles present another difficulty.
Additionally, Deepak Kumar Mishra talked on why, in his opinion, the show’s metropolitan audience can relate to it despite its setting in a sleepy, little Uttar Pradesh town. When he was composing the story, he said, “I don’t think about what kind of audience is going to watch my show and from where.” It’s a secondary idea, the kind of thing one would consider after writing. I am fully immersed in the narrative when I write. All you have to do is tell the story from your heart. Therefore, you had better tell it such that everyone who watches it may relate to it. I therefore had no idea who would be watching it.
Nevertheless, we were never worried that the urban audience wouldn’t watch it. The rationale behind this is that Panchayat tells the story of a hamlet from the perspective of an urban lad. If Jitu (Jitendra Kumar) in the story gets frustrated for any reason, hundreds of other boys in India are also experiencing frustration due to similar issues. We employed several instruments to establish urban relatability. Deepak said, “There’s also a chance that the urban populace must have lived in their village at some point in their lives, and that could be second-level relatability.