Gram Chikitsalay 2 review: Amol Parashar show is a nice comfort watch
Gram Chikitsalay 2 review: Season 2 of this rural-com returns with its low stakes, lo-fi storytelling, in which the TVF mandate– keep it cosy, bro– stays comfortably uppermost. No surprises then that our idealistic doctor stays the course, even as the clashes between the twain– the citified outsider and the set-in-their-ways villagers– continue. Also back in harness are his little unit of compounder, nurse and helpers, the colleague-turning-into-friendly-companion, the rival local quack, and the gaonwalas themselves, slowly if reluctantly, understanding the value of a real ‘daaktar saab’ who can actually save lives. As is the case with everything TVF, the struggle is to create characters with quirk and credibility, and often the former does the heavy-lifting more than anything else. But given that the first season has set the scene, acquainting us with the residents and their emphasised accents in fictionalised Bhatkandi, this time around we wait for things to move forward. So compounder Phutani (Anandeshwar Dwivedi) will come late because his wife has taken off to the maikaa, and he needs to do things for himself. Those around him– wardboy Govind (Akash Makhija), cleaner Dhelu (Kartikay Raj)– nod in perfect understanding. It doesn’t matter if the inspection team to judge the efficacy of the PHC (primary health centre), can swoop in anytime: if Govind needs to submit to a ‘pakadua vivaah’, then everything else needs to come to a standstill.
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