In the role of a city boy who is forced to become a panchayat secretary in a remote village after failing to procure a job post graduation, Jitendra Kumar knew he was tackling a character that wasn’t traditionally glamorous. Discussing his work on Panchayat season two, Kumar says, “It is challenging to play a character who is simple. There are a lot of areas to work on. I have to seek advice from my writer, and director to bring more to the table to essay a simple character. If you watch any episode of Panchayat, you’ll notice that there isn’t too much drama. No one takes the effort to crack a joke either. This is how the character is written, and if an actor is expected to deliver, a lot of hard-work needs to be put into it.”

At the same time, showcasing Abhishek Tripathi’s antics in the Amazon Prime Video show is a feat he finds enjoyable. “It was nostalgic to return to the village again for season two. When we were making the show, a lot of urban stories were being told. We felt that we must tell the stories of a village, not because urban stories had been gaining attention, but because it was [important] to explore stories from villages. Sending an educated boy to a village was the unique element in the script, because we usually see people from villages moving to cities.”