Deepak Kumar Mishra
Panchayat Season 4 Review: Delivers A Compelling Narrative
The name ‘Panchayat’ takes its rawest form in season 4. It’s the gradual progression of what it promised to take a shape of. If you rewind, and recall what Season 3 rolled out as a message for us. Post the massive fight right on the premises of Rudra hospital—Jhagra, Jhanjhat, Maara-peeti, ghisa-ghisi…ab jaake lag raha hai Panchayat election aa gaya hai. Well, that is exactly what we were waiting for! And it’s there. The election scorches like the summer Sun, the politics get an upheaval. Sure, the toned-down, light-he | Click Here...
Review of Amazon Prime’s Panchayat: Is A Quaint, Warm & Relatable Look At Rural Life
Panchayat(Amazon Prime Video, 8 Episodes) Starring Jitendra Kumar, Chandan Roy, Neena Gupta, Raghuvir Yadav Directed by Deepak Kumar Mishra Rating: *** ½ This one knows. Just knows. Panchayat is an insider’s job. Its director (Deepak Kumar Mishra), writer (Chandan Kumar) and the actors, in big and small roles, they all know the rural milieu first-hand. Which explains why it all appears so real, so lived-in and so smartly unsophisticated. Panchayat comes from the team that made Jitendra Kumar a web-star with Kota Factory. This time Kumar is cast as | Click Here...
Review of Humorously Yours Season 2: Much ado about nothing
When the Bard of Avon wrote with much flourish the adage, ‘Much ado about nothing’, he bestowed upon mankind the most succinct way of saying – dude, cut the crap. It’s just a storm in a teacup, or better still, a big fuss over fluff. Shakespeare’s words are also the most succinct way of describing the second season of Humorously Yours – it seriously is much ado about nothing. Out of the four episodes of the show, all but the last end anti-climactically, leading one to wonder at the pointlessness of the entire exercise. Season 2 simply fails to keep us invested in t | Click Here...