Dhaka, May 10 -- When Amazon Prime launched its new sitcom "Dupahiya" on Mar 7, one of its promotional tactics was to create a meme video, where Neena Gupta, who plays Manju Devi in the veteran Prime show "Panchayat", introduces Dupahiya's Renuka Shahane to the audience.

That is Dupahiya in a nutshell: Amazon's way to piggyback off the whirlwind success of Panchayat, by creating an off-brand version to keep the audience hooked as they wait between each season of the beloved TV show.

Just like Panchayat, Dupahiya's story is set in a village, which is run by a female chief, Pushpalata, played by Renuka.

However, where Panchayat's story flows organically, Dupahiya seems to be more calculated, bordering on artificial, as each subplot is st...