Panchayat Season 4 Review: Politics With Rural Charm

Politics With Rural Charm

Sachivji (Jitendra Kumar), Pradhanji (Raghuvir Yadav), Manjudevi (Neena Gupta) and all the main players of Panchayat have become household names. Does Season 4 satisfy its loyal viewer base or does it let down the audience? Read our review before you watch the show.

Panchayat Season 4 Cast/Actors: Jitendra Kumar, Neena Gupta, Raghubir Yadav, Faisal Malik, Chandan Roy, Sanvikaa, Durgesh Kumar, Sunita Rajwar, Ashok Pathak, Pankaj Jha & Others

Panchayat Season 4 Director: Deepak Kumar Mishra and Akshat Vijaywargiya

Panchayat Season 4 Production House: The Viral Fever

Panchayat Season 4 Release Date: Streaming from 24th June, 2025

Panchayat Season 4 Available On: Amazon Prime Video OTT Platform

Panchayat Season 4 Released/Available In Languages: Hindi

Panchayat Season 4 Number Of Episodes: 8

Panchayat Season 4 Episode Duration: 40 Minutes (Approx Each Episode)

Panchayat Season 4 Critic Review:

The tough part about the fourth season of a popular series is the fear of ambience fatigue defeating the charm of what began five years ago.

Additionally, it’s election time in Phulera, the village where government official Abhishek Tripathi (Jitendra Kumar) has settled down comfortably as the Sachivji (panchayat secretary). It’s therefore daunting for directors Deepak Kumar Mishra and Akshat Vijaywargiya and writer Chandan Kumar to keep the appeal alive especially when politics at any level is awash with the familiar.

Between Pradhanji Brijbhushan Dubey (Raghubir Yadav) alongside wife Manjudevi (Neena Gupta) and the rival camp led by Bhushan (Durgesh Kumar) with his wife Krantidevi (Sunita Rajwar), the campaign gets ugly. One-upmanship over cleaning campaigns, restoring electricity, trading seva-meva charges and ego tiffs over laddoos and kachoris are strewn all over the campaign trail. In the fray are also political godfathers, coteries of loyalists and regime change upsets. Sympathy votes and politicising a son’s death are disturbing realities. “But it’s all a part of politics,” Pradhanji periodically reminds everyone. 

The beer bonds of Pradhanji, Sachivji, Prahlad (Faisal Malik) and Vikas (Chandan Roy) continue, providing one another with comfort and cheer. Abhishek’s sweet chemistry with Rinki Dubey (Sanvikaa) moves one step forward but is still to culminate into anything official.

With an MLA whose horse must be called Sitara and an MP with a rooster for a pet (like Prithviraj Chauhan, the TV serial which has a moghul cradling his pet rooster), the lauki vs pressure cooker campaign heats up. To drive in the message that winning an election rests on the principle of jaise karni waise bharni (you reap what you sow, your work decides the results), an entire episode curiously and suddenly features Manjudevi’s old father who turns up only to dispense wisdom before disappearing from the scene. There are also clumsy sequences like a shopkeeper selling bangles asking the men to disperse and make room for the women coming in. But when the men take off on their bikes, there’s not a single woman in sight.

However, a muffler scene between Sachivji and Rinki on a cold evening is hot chocolate warm.

Jitendra Kumar, Raghubir Yadav, Neena Gupta, Sanvikaa, Faisal Malik, Chandan Roy and all the other players who have turned their respective characters into relatable people, connect as always with the viewer.  

Abhishek’s CAT results and the outcome of the panchayat elections leave plenty of room for another season or two. One only hopes there’s less of oft-seen politics and more of the charm that one associates with the show.

Panchayat Season 4 – Watch Or Not?: Despite the familiar politics, admirers of Panchayat will be satiated. 

Panchayat Season 4 Review Score Rating: 3 out of 5 (i.e. 3/5)

Panchayat Season 4 Official Trailer:

Credits: Prime Video India

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