The Great Indian Family

The film is set in the fictional town of Balrampur where Vedvyas Tripathi (Vicky Kaushal) lives with his colourful family. Vedvyas is better known as Bhajan Kumar and is a famous bhajan singer of the town. His father, Pandit Siyaram Tripathi (Kumud Mishra), is a respected member of the society and a famous pandit who has many influential people as his clients. The family also includes an uncle aka Balakram Tripathi (Manoj Pahwa), his wife Hema (Sadiya Siddiqui), Aunty Susheela Kumari (Alka Amin), and Vedvyas’s twin sister Gunja (Srishti Dixit). Since childhood, Vedvyas has known that sometimes the family has inadvertently been the cause of his embarrassment and he always likens his life to a game of snakes and ladders.

Bhajan Kumar’s life with his friends and his quirky family was going well, and so much so that one day he meets a girl, Jasmeet (Manushi Chhillar). Though the circumstances of their meeting were less than perfect but he knew in his heart that the dawn of a new love had broken in his life.

And then one day, soon after his father had left for his pilgrimage, a letter arrives. A letter that was to create the biggest conflict of his and his family’s life. The letter fundamentally changed the way Vedvyas, his family, his friends and slowly the whole neighbourhood, all looked at him.

A letter that not only confused him but gradually allowed the whole world to look at him as an impostor, and before one knew it, Bhajan Kumar was no longer the beloved singer of the city but a man who lost his friends and his family in a jiffy.

As he learns to deal with his new crisis he looks at the world afresh, he manages to look at his own past and his prejudices, and sometimes when the times are tough, they bring with them a lesson that life teaches us. That perhaps in the differences there is some truth and beauty and that, when we stop fighting it we come to a greater understanding of ourselves and only then can we say that we are all a part of… The Great Indian Family.

Cast: Vicky Kaushal, Manushi Chhillar, Kumud Mishra, Manoj Pahwa, Yashpal Sharma, Alka Amin, Sadiya Siddiqui, Ashutosh Ujjwal, Bhuvan Arora, Aasif Khan, Srishti Dixit, Bharati Perwani
Writer-Director: Vijay Krishna Acharya
Producer: Aditya Chopra
Co-Producer: Akshaye Widhani
Director of Photography: Ayananka Bose
Music: Pritam
Lyrics: Amitabh Bhattacharya
Executive Producer: Sanjay Shivalkar
Production Designers: Sumit Basu, Snigdha Basu, Rajnish Hedao (Acropolis)
Editor: Charu Shree Roy
Associate Editor: Omkar Uttam Sakpal
Art Direction: Bidhan Guha, Trupti Chavan, Rachna Mandal
Director of Choreography: Vaibhavi Merchant, Bosco-Caesar, Vijay A Ganguly
Sound Designers: Ganesh Gangadharan (YRF Studios), Debasish Mishra
Sync Sound Recordist: Debasish Mishra
Re-recording Mixer: Anuj Mathur (YRF Studios)
Action Director: Parvez Shaikh
Original Background Music: Kingshuk Chakravarty
Publicity Design: Vivek Mandrekar (YRF Design Cell)
Publicity Stills: Amol Jadhav
Stills: Kerry Monteen
Costume Designer: Sheetal Sharma
Visual Effects: yFX
Casting Director: Shanoo Sharma