OTT platform is gradually becoming the biggest means of digital entertainment. The OTT sector boomed a lot during the corona virus epidemic because when the closure of cinemas turned to OTT platforms for entertainment. At the same time, now many blockbuster films and web series have started releasing on OTT. Many great films and series have been dominating in 2024, but the third season of this low-budget series broke many records on the OTT platform. The series we are going to tell you about today is made on a low budget, but it has made tremendous profits on OTT.
This series made crores of profit
This web series has neither fight cuts nor objectionable scenes, seeing which it can be said that the makers have done all this for views. We are talking about ‘Panchayat 3’, after two seasons of which were a hit, people were waiting for its third season for a long time. According to a report by Ormax Media, ‘Panchayat 3’ has been the most watched Indian web series on OTT in the first half of 2024. According to Ormax, the third season of the series, which premiered on Amazon Prime Video earlier this year, has seen 28.2 million viewers watch the series in a loop. Due to this, the makers have benefited from crores of digital money. It also surpassed Netflix’s ‘Heeramandi’, which took the second position with 20.3 million viewers.
Earnings more than budget
All three seasons of ‘Panchayat’ have Jitendra Kumar in the lead role of Secretary ji, along with veteran actress Neena Gupta and Raghubir Yadav as well as Chandan Roy, Sanvika, Faizal Malik, Durgesh Kumar and Pankaj Jha in lead roles. ‘Panchayat’ Season 3 had a budget of Rs 20-30 crore which is much less than the Rs 200+ crore budget of some more high-profile productions. This was revealed by the makers of ‘Panchayat’ themselves.
