Work has begun on ‘Panchayat 4’, plan to make season five too: director Deepak Kumar Mishra

Panchayat director Deepak Kumar Mishra says there are at least two more seasons in the pipeline for the popular comedy-drama series and the team has already started work on the fourth installment

Panchayat director Deepak Kumar Mishra says there are at least two more seasons in the pipeline for the popular comedy-drama series and the team has already started work on the fourth installment.

Mishra's comments come days before the season three premiere of the Prime Video show, starring Jitendra Kumar, Neena Gupta, Raghubir Yadav, Faisal Malik, Chandan Roy, and Sanvikaa.

Panchayat became an instant hit with viewers when it premiered in 2020 and its second season also garnered overwhelming response upon its 2022 premiere.

“We have started writing season four. For us, generally, there’s no break between two seasons. The third season is over and we have written three to four episodes (of season four) of the show.

"So far, we have thought about making seasons four and five. For season four, we have a clear idea, and there is a broader idea for season five," Mishra told PTI here.

Panchayat revolves around Abhishek Tripathi (Kumar), an engineering graduate, who for lack of a better job option, takes up the post of a secretary of a panchayat office in Phulera, a fictional remote village in Uttar Pradesh.

When the team began working on Panchayat season three, the director said they were "careful not to get swayed by the popularity" of the previous two chapters.