Gram Chikitsalay Season 2 Review: ★★★½☆ (3.5/5)
Continuing a heartfelt journey, Gram Chikitsalay Season 2 on Prime Video is a blend of strong performances, meaningful storytelling, and a lot of warmth and humor. Amol Parashar returns for a heartwarming new season of humor, humanity, and the everyday struggles of rural healthcare.
Rating: ★★★½☆ (3.5/5)
Director: Lalitam Anand
Platform: Amazon Prime Video
Episodes: 5
Cast: Amol Parashar, Vinay Pathak, Akansha Ranjan Kapoor, Anandeshwar Dwivedi, Akash Makhija Release: June 23, 2026
There is a scene in Season 2 where a woman goes into labour and the local quack’s medical recommendation is a havan — a ritual fire ceremony. She is then rushed to the Primary Health Centre in a cart. It is absurd, it is funny, and it is uncomfortably close to something that actually happens in rural India. That combination — absurd, funny, real — is exactly what Gram Chikitsalay does better than almost any other show on Indian streaming right now.
Season 2 picks up with Dr Prabhat Sinha, played by Amol Parashar, still running the PHC in Bhatkandi, TVF’s fictional Jharkhand village. Season 1 ended with a small but meaningful win — his first genuine patient. This season opens with a new problem. In a village of 5,000 people, Prabhat is lucky to see ten patients a day.
Across the lane, local quack Chetak Kumar, played by Vinay Pathak, has a waiting room that would make a Delhi specialist envious. His treatments include fermented toddy for kidney stones and rituals for everything else. The village trusts Chetak. They do not yet trust the real doctor with a degree. That gap is where the show lives.
Prabhat’s goal this season is to win the Adarsh PHC award. It sounds like simple ambition, but it is really about survival — the award comes with a steady medicine supply from the CMO’s office, and without medicines, the health centre cannot function. The stakes are practical rather than dramatic, which is exactly the right instinct for this show.
Amol Parashar remains the heart of it all. His Prabhat is earnest, occasionally self-righteous, and completely unwilling to compromise his principles for convenience. He cycles around in a helmet while everyone else treats that as faintly ridiculous.
There is a moment this season where Gargi, played by Akansha Ranjan Kapoor, calls him out for whining about sacrifice while the people around him are navigating problems far harder than his. Prabhat grows up a little in that moment, and the show grows with him.
Akansha Ranjan Kapoor gets considerably more to do this season and makes the most of it. Gargi is a steady, capable presence who helps without fanfare and pushes back when Prabhat needs it. The bickering between them has a warmth and timing that suggests the writers know exactly where this is eventually headed.
Anandeshwar Dwivedi as compounder Bhutani is still the scene-stealer he was in Season 1, landing one-liners with the casual precision of someone who has been doing this for years.
Akash Makhija as Govind has a subplot this season about making his temporary job permanent — which means navigating a bribe demand he cannot afford — that turns out to be more affecting than you expect. And Vinay Pathak as Chetak continues to be the show’s most interesting moral complication, a man who is clearly a fraud and clearly cares, somehow at the same time.
The cameos from the Panchayat universe — Binod and Bhushan making appearances — will delight fans of that show, and the “Dekh Raha Hai Binod” repurposed moment lands exactly as well as it should.
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The show is not flawless. Five episodes means some subplots feel slightly rushed toward the end, and the pacing occasionally softens in ways that test your patience before rewarding it. The comparisons to Panchayat are unavoidable and mostly fair — the shows share a creator, a tone, and a structural instinct for finding comedy inside systems that are quietly failing the people they exist to serve.
But Gram Chikitsalay has its own lane. Healthcare, superstition, and the specific dignity of people who deserve better systems and rarely get them. It does that lane with warmth, honesty, and consistent humour. Still the most underrated show TVF has made. Season 2 makes sure of that.
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Gram Chikitsalay Season 2 is now streaming on Prime Video. All 5 episodes available.