Jitendra Kumar , Neena Gupta , and Raghuvir Yadav star in the highly anticipated OTT show ' Panchayat ,' directed by Deepak Mishra . The makers have just dropped the third season, and it is already garnering rave reviews. In an exclusive interview with ETimes, main lead Jitendra Kumar, popularly known as Jitu opened up about his character Abhishek , who is Sachiv ji ( Secretary) of the Panchayat.
We asked him if he ever tried to add new facets to the character he had been playing for 5 and half years now. To this he said, "The writers have put in a lot of thought while writing the show, and how they want to showcase each character. At times when you interrupt the writers, and try to make some changes, you realize that there was no need, as they have a reason for the way the characters are behaving in a particular fashion, and the actor wouldn’t get to know about it just by reading the script.
And mostly the writers have already thought about what you might want to add and they have a much better plan in mind, so after a point you feel embarrassed and continue with what they have given you.” The crew spent a couple of months shooting for the third season in Mahodiya village of district Sehore in Madhya Pradesh and when asked to choose between city life and village life, Jitu was quick to answer that he would like to stay in the city. He said, "Mumbai is a very nice city.
It's fun to live here. And, there are a lot of facilities and Mumbai feels like a home. It holds you ba.
