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Season 2 of Panchayat was a smash hit. Fans have loved the simplicity and warmth of the show and all of the characters. The popular comedy-drama series directed by Deepak Kumar Mishra stars Jitendra Kumar, Raghubir Yadav, Neena Gupta, Chandan Roy, Neena Gupta, Raghubir Yadav, Faisal Malik and Sanvikaawas.
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Both seasons of the show followed the life of Abhishek (played by Kumar), an engineering graduate who settles down as a panchayat secretary in a remote village of Phulera in Uttar Pradesh because there are no better job opportunities.
While fans are still loving the second season of “Panchayat,” some managed to dig up an old TV movie from 1989 and began to draw parallels between Panchayat and the film “Umeed”.
umeed
Umeed is a 1989 film in which Shah Rukh Khan is sent to a village as a banker just like Abhishek Tripathi (Jitendra Kumar).
Shah Rukh Khan
In a series of tweets, fans pointed out that Shah Rukh Khan previously played a character like Mohan Bhargav in Swades, and he played “Bank Babu” in Umeed released on Doordarshan.
He has made a TV series called Umeed in which SRK lived as a banker in a village that is not a developed village
Very striking similarities to Panchayat with the only difference being that the Jeetu Bhaiya character is a Sachivhttps://t.co/01trDCNmJW
– Anuj 🇮🇳SRKian🇮🇳 (@anujrocks44) May 30, 2022
The favorite line from the movie is when the Pradhan says Sahayak
ye ladka to pura powerhouse er pradhan ko hilakar rakh diya(This boy is a full powerhouse, he shocked the Pradhan)
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And the fun fact is I finished watching Panchayat 2 this morning and this story is very similar pic.twitter.com/4RtdODQcfT— Sanaullah._.srkian (@Lucifer_srk_07) May 20, 2022
In Panchayat, actor Jitendra Kumar goes to a small village and here as a secretary
SRK is sent to a village where no banker wants to come.After coming here, SRK sees the situation and tries to improve the village
Since this movie is only 53 minutes long
You should try pic.twitter.com/f8hm7vPQ0a— Sanaullah._.srkian (@Lucifer_srk_07) May 20, 2022
This is an oddly satisfying coincidence, as Panchayat actor Jitendra Kumar revealed in a recent interview with Bollywood Hungama that Shah Rukh Khan would have been the ideal choice for the role of Sachiv had Panchayat 2 been filmed in the 1990s.
Panchayat 2
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