The first season of the Prime Video series Gram Chikitsalay in 2025 seemed like Panchayat redux – a different village with a cute name and a different profession for the protagonist but a similar template about a well-meaning city man clueless in rural India. This theme is a speciality of producer The Viral Fever, whose shows about the “real India” hide the grime under layers of humour.
Prabhat (Amol Parashar) is the son of a wealthy doctor in Delhi and has a hospital waiting for him to manage. Instead, Prabhat chooses a low-paying job as the medical officer at a gram chikitsalay, or a primary health centre, in Bhatkandi village in Jharkhand. Prabhat believes that this is where he is needed and can make a difference.
The problem is that Bhatkandi doesn’t really care about yet another medical officer. They are quite happy with the phony “jholawala”, Chetak (Vinay Pathak), who makes up for the lack of a degree with an understanding of the rural pulse. Like the administrative office in Panchayat, the gram chikitsalay is non-functional.
In the first season, Prabhat had to first evict the farmer who had usurped the health centre’s land and then teach professionalism and honesty to his staff of three – compounder Phutani...
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