Panchayat touches folks’s hearts due to its innocence: Neena Gupta

Veteran actor Neena Gupta says there may be “a certain kind of innocence” on the coronary heart of her comedy-drama collection Panchayat that folks have discovered endearing.

The actor has reprised her position as pradhan (village head) Manju Devi on the second season of the Amazon Original collection, which additionally options Jitendra Kumar as panchayat secretary Abhishek Tripathi and Raghubir Yadav as Gupta’s display screen husband Brij Bhushan Dubey.

The present, directed by Deepak Kumar Mishra and penned by Chandan Kumar, captures the journey of an engineering graduate who for the dearth of higher job choices within the metropolis, joins as secretary of a panchayat workplace in a distant village in Uttar Pradesh.

“What I’ve realised is that Panchayat has a certain kind of innocence. That’s why it touches people’s hearts,” Gupta informed PTI.

The 62-year-old actor mentioned the writing of the upcoming season is at par with the primary one, which premiered in 2020. “It’s a very well written season. There are some new characters also. It was fun to shoot again. We shot in the same village (in Madhya Pradesh) and stayed in the same hotel,” she added.

Discussing the arc of Manju Devi, Gupta mentioned the character would have a “smooth” development as that’s the essence of the present.

“Manju Devi’s growth as a character will be slow because the kind of woman she is, she won’t suddenly change. She is a very simple woman and doesn’t want much from life. So the change has to come softly and slowly. And this is the flavour of Panchayat. There are no abrupt shifts. The script flows very smoothly,” she mentioned.

Taking on from the primary season, the collection will delve deeper into the equations of the primary season in addition to Abhishek’s life as he settles into a brand new life within the Phulera village.

Panchayat season two, produced by The Viral Fever (TVF), streams on Prime Video.