‘Panchayat’ season 4 review: Easy-going charm loses the vote to an over-hyped election

In Phulera village in Uttar Pradesh, where time tends to move at a glacial pace, things are finally beginning to hot up. The contest between Manju Devi (Neena Gupta) and Kranti Devi (Sunita Rajwar) for the sarpanch’s post is round the corner. The threat of regime change assumes war-like proportions.

Manju Devi’s bottle gourd election symbol is being wielded with ferocity against Kranti Devi’s cooker. Manju Devi needs all the help she can get from her husband and ex-sarpanch Brij Bhushan (Raghubir Yadav), daughter Rinku (Sanvikaa) and supporters Vikas (Chandan Roy) and Prahlad (Faisal Malik). Kranti Devi’s ambitious husband Bhushan (Durgesh Kumar) and his lackeys Binod (Ashok Pathak) and Madhav (Bulloo Kumar) have the backing of the legislator Chandrakishore (Pankaj Jha), who has a long-running beef with Brij Bhushan.

Although the new season of Prime Video’s Panchayat is organised around the election, there is occasion for village council secretary Abhishek (Jitendra Kumar) to ponder whether he should flee Phulera for good.

Abhishek has long been trying to clear the exam for a prestigious educational institute. But he has lowered himself deeper into the Phulera swamp than he cares to admit. He has lost his neutrality as a government employee and his heart to Rinku. He has...

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