Sanvikaa discusses acting & powerful women in Panchayat season 4

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IANS Exclusive: Mumbai, Maharashtra: Sanvikaa, Rinki in Panchayat, felt excited yet nervous before Season 4’s release, trusting loyal fanbase. Rinki grew from a minor role to a central figure & her ambitions and romance with Sachiv ji shining. The lively kachori scene shoot reflected the cast’s bond. The show’s authentic Uttar Pradesh dialect and storytelling blend humor, rural life, and social issues. Panchayat captivates globally with its simplicity. Sanvikaa’s subtle disapproval in a celebratory scene added depth while strong female roles emerged from writer collaboration. Despite political themes the show’s innocence endures balancing humor and heart.  #Sanvikaa #PanchayatSeason4 #SachivJi #Panchayat #BehindTheScenes

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00:00Hello Sanvika, welcome to INS and massive congratulations for the 4th season of Panchayat that has been released.

00:05Thank you, thank you so much.

00:06Great response.

00:08I want to start off by asking that third season was like it was on top of its game.

00:14Before the season was released, what was your mind space like?

00:18Were you a bundle of nerves or were you at ease ki haat thik achchai banai?

00:21So definitely I think with every season whenever we got the announcement date,

00:25for me it was very like I used to be like very anxious and nervous

00:29even this time when the first time the release date was like announced like it was supposed to release on 2nd of July.

00:38Since that day I've been like very anxious and like with time it has been the mix of like a lot of emotions,

00:44nervousness, excitement and you know like as an actor you are always curious ki you know how people will

00:50respond to the season, how will people will respond to you or to your character.

00:54So definitely that thing was there and I think

00:57somewhere right now also though the season has released but still like somewhere it's still there

01:04but I'm really enjoying because the response has been great and panchayat has like serious amazing

01:10loyal fan following and people are sharing love even in this season so I'm like really glad about it.

01:17Okay and your character's trajectory in panchayat is you know some one of the strongest we saw in the first

01:24season it was towards the end of the season when you made an appearance second season through third

01:28and now fourth season you have like a major like you're fully involved hands-on with what all is

01:33happening in the politics of cholera. How would you break down the trajectory of your character from

01:39first season to the recently released fourth season?

01:41I think the makers wanted it to be in such a way you know where the character is like slowly

01:46progressing they never wanted to give it like in the first go itself that's why it has been like

01:51conscious effort has been made to show rinky like in you know in bits and pieces only and with time

01:58we are discovering who rinky is what she stands for and how her relations with the family and with her

02:04love life and whatever she's dealing in her life that is being discovered like with like in a very slow

02:10process so even now I think there we can see like little more what rinky is in the next season so it has

02:17always been like pre-planned thing that it will happen in season four and like with after season four

02:24things will you know grow little more and there's this particular sequence in the fourth season wherein

02:31there's a face-off between kachori wala ke dukaan tell me what all went behind you uh before you

02:37shot for that scene what was the jamming or the atmosphere on the set like the atmosphere was

02:42definitely very nice uh it was nothing very different uh we practiced just for like once or twice even

02:49with uh vidaya ki beti uh the banter was like we rehearsed like four five times and uh like off screen we

02:55share a very good uh bonding uh what is shown on screen it's like very different uh so that's why

03:01it got very easy uh to you know to perform over there and sometimes you know uh we are performing

03:07and we just laugh so those are the things uh but apart from that there was like no such thing that

03:15we did like too much of rehearsal or uh we did like too much of jamming it was like it was clear from both

03:21the ends it was clear by the director like what will be the space and once we we were there i think it

03:26was just like it just happens it's not like that we rehearse like too much we obviously we do the

03:32lines and all uh but it's not that we rehearse like too much and like discuss too much okay okay and my

03:39next question is a bit of technical uh it factors in the writing as well uh when i see panchayat uh

03:46everywhere on the sign boards and everything it's uh fullera uh which is in up but the language is

03:52somewhere more towards the eastern side of bihar you know even the song rajaji it has you know strong

03:57influences of bhojpuri uh could you please help me understand the language the linguistics of panchayat

04:03as as the show linguistics of panchayat oh my god it's difficult for me as well to understand

04:09um so what we tried to do is like uh we tried in our own ways to catch the up accent and for me it was

04:18more like the simple language just the basics uh it would be like hum and the basics that uh we usually

04:25speak it was not very much like uh the kind of lingo that uh binod has or durgesh dada has it was like

04:34every character has a very different lingo uh but the dialect was like somewhat like similar uh that was

04:41also because like rinky as it was shown like she is like little educated so that's why uh her

04:48accent was like kept little simple and apart from that like if we are talk about like lingo i think

04:54that was taken care by the director whatever he wanted people have delivered it in that way

05:00okay and i was reading this one uh meme on one of the social media pages it said that

05:06uh if you get into the hit or get into the problems so you will win the election no matter if you are

05:12banrakas or anyone else so with regards to the show writing how how would you define the overall

05:18the larger story that the show tries to tell the characterizations and the overall narrative how would

05:23you define all of that i think i would say it is just a kind of representative like where the makers

05:30are trying to show that it is very important to raise your voice and to demand for things and

05:35uh like whatever the demands the opposition team had like for the roles or the electricity it was not

05:41wrong uh so it is very important and if any uh like uh authority is there it is very important that

05:51the first priority is that you take care of the citizens take care of the basic necessities and uh

05:56that is what the makers have tried to show that in a very subtle and light manner

06:00okay okay and every season of panchad barring the first season it has moments of heartbreak we saw

06:08it in second season with pralacha third season it was more of a thrill because of the action in the

06:12last episode this time it was about uh manjudevi losing the election uh tell me when you went for the

06:18table read or when you were amazing through the script what was that heartbreak for you like and how

06:22did you deal with it as an artist so it was not a heartbreak honestly speaking because when we were

06:27doing the uh narration it was like all of us sitting together and the writer was doing the

06:31narration so we started with the first episode and as the episode progresses for us it was like

06:38very hilarious the way he was narrating the story for us everyone was laughing on the table no no no

06:43chandan kumar the writer so his narration is amazing and he also has like his own sense of humor so it was

06:52like very hilarious when we when we were listening to the story and even in the end uh though the

06:58ending was in that particular manner but we know like maybe like in season five there could be something

07:04else uh we can expect i don't know but maybe we can expect uh so there was like no heartbreak moment

07:10for us it was like as an actor we were just trying to listen to the story uh yeah that's it but it for me

07:17it was like more of laughter than like the serious moments okay and taking that further as an actor

07:22when you read through the script uh how important it is for you to not the audience in your takeover and

07:28allow the artist you know to take the front row i think first for me uh when i read the script it is

07:34always through like an audience perspective and then when you i reread like four or five times after

07:40that i get into the character and try to understand what my character has progressed and what that character

07:46is trying to say in that particular scenes um so it only happens when you like reread and when you

07:54like discuss with your co-actors that is the time that you know your character develops more like the

08:00first read is always the blank read uh where you just understand the flow of the story okay okay and

08:07panchait is one of india's if i may say flagship shows you know it's india's answer to the international

08:14what all goes on in on the international platform it's rooted it has strong regional influences uh

08:20what would you have to say about that you know the impact of panchayat on the global audience or the

08:23diaspora audience i think honestly we are very glad that something like this has happened because no one

08:29imagined like uh panchayat would get like this massive success uh because it's a very simple show

08:35and the kind of shows that were being made uh they were like completely different uh so it has made a

08:42mark in itself and the way people have you know uh shown so much love uh like internationally also

08:48the audience has loved so much people uh of india who stay outside india they have shown like immense

08:54love and they feel like so rooted uh so it has become a benchmark uh definitely and i think i feel

09:01really proud like if people are seeing this show like across the globe so it is a proud moment for all of

09:08us okay and two more questions uh first with regards to the scene wherein the celebrations are going

09:14around this for the fourth season uh uh kranti devy has won the election we know this dancing everyone

09:19is they are in the festive mood uh he comes with a box of mithai first towards pradhanji he declines it

09:25kinds of goes inside the panchayat office manju devy is a sport you know uh she goes to make sure yeah

09:32uh but i saw your expression at the back you were not really in favor of it uh what was going on

09:38there so my whole point was at that point uh that we have lost the election they were the opposition

09:45team and when uh my father has refused that so you know it should be like a teamwork even like she

09:51should not take it uh but uh it was a very different take from the point of view that she comes from uh she

09:58takes it like very sportingly and uh she takes it like uh uh like in a very positive way not a

10:06positive way but like i would say a sporting way uh so my whole point was like i wanted to support my

10:13father and uh the whole thing should be like a teamwork you know uh we are like absolutely opposite uh to

10:22that we are absolutely against that team so that's why i was like mommy yeah so what she has done i

10:31think it's like absolutely perfect and it says a lot just by taking that one laddu yeah she comes from

10:38like a more like you know thoughtful yeah she comes from a very thoughtful space and uh she takes things

10:44like like in a like actual uh political way i would say okay okay and with regards to that the women

10:54in fullera or the women of panchat the female characters of panchat they are as strong as their

10:58male counterparts uh and it shows up in the writing as well now now tell me when you are being narrated

11:04the show uh chandan if he narrates it to you uh what are the questions that you ask to make those

11:10characters or anyone else from from the female actors to add their own inputs to the character

11:15to lend it more depth what was what all goes on around there during the narration what is the active

11:20give and take like so during narration it is always like uh the writer speaks and we listen so during

11:28narration that's the process after that when we are there on the set uh or like once we get the script

11:34so we can definitely call uh the director or the writer and we can like ask questions about like for me it

11:40is most like my most scenes are with jitu so i try to understand like where the chemistry has reached

11:45you know like if you talk about the backstory how much are they talking uh do they still have hesitation

11:51or like that thing has like progressed like something like that has happened in season three where

11:56we felt like uh jitu and i felt that our relation has like little progress because we have been talking

12:02over phone and we have been texting each other but when we went there and we performed so we were like

12:07very comfortable and you know uh there was like no jijak when we were performing uh our scenes but

12:13then the director said no you know we still want that hesitation uh so that happens only when we go on

12:21set um yeah apart from that there are like usually no more questions because it's been written in a very

12:28clear way okay and for my final question you know panchat i just have like one request every time like every

12:34season please make a character or grow i've been like asking them sir kuch toh kare rinki kuch toh kare so

12:42that has been my like personal request since season two uh but like with time uh the makers are like

12:49really really intelligent and they know how to take the story ahead so this uh progress has been like

12:55very gradual um and i'm like happy about it but still like always say sir okay and for my final question

13:04panchayat to me will always be one show that speaks high of innocence yeah the simple village

13:10life uh people they are i mean their soul is without any malice even if they are competing yeah absolutely

13:15they are good in their heart absolutely uh but with the third season and the fourth season the uh

13:22political elements of the show picking up as an audience do you do you i mean tell me do you fear the

13:27innocence being lost somewhere as as the uh show moves forward with the season subsequent seasons

13:33because politics and innocence they don't go well together yeah yeah but i don't think so though

13:37they are competing with each other but still like if someone is in like need uh even the opposition

13:43team will come and help and support so i think even in villages right now though there will be opposition

13:48though people will hate each other but when there are like crisis or like when someone needs any help

13:54no matter how much you hate that person uh you will always go and help that person so i think

13:59that innocence is not lost it is just like being masked with the situations that people are having

14:05right now like the political thing uh but if innocence we talk about i think it's still there

14:12okay perfect so with that we have reached the end of this conversation if there's anything that i may

14:16have missed asking as a question or something that you would have loved to talk about so please feel

14:19um no i don't think so i have anything else to talk about but i just want to say to my audience thank

14:28you for all the love that uh you've been sharing on us and we'll be very very great we are all very

14:34grateful uh for all this love and yeah that's it thank you for watching our show thank you perfect

14:40so on that note thank you so much and i wish you all the best please take care

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