Indian cinema, particularly Bollywood, has depicted the Indian family in diverse facets. 56 Indeed, the family has been the main trope for Indian cinema, extending across genres––Drama, comedy, political satires, Horror, Crime, Thriller, and web-series (Netflix, Amazon Prime). For example, often in the crime-genre, the criminal-gang or “organisation” is set-up around a family, or the protagonist’s inclination to criminal activities is explained as emanating from a trauma of being from a broken family. In the horror genre, unfulfilled desires of a family member or their mistreatment is often shown as the cause of haunting. Web-series too, have used the prism of the family to depict and discuss social and political dystopias, such as Leila (Netflix), that showcases the perils of a totalitarian regime through the lens of a mother-daughter relationship. In this chapter, I focus on the Drama/Comedy/Romance genre of Bollywood, to examine if there has been any shift in the way the family is depicted in recent films. This theme of enquiry will not only help to establish a chronological order of Bollywood films but will also allow to trace broader societal changes in India. This is because often Bollywood films serve as a navigating tool to understand the society's mood––cultural, political, religious. For example, films made in post-independence years, mainly discussed themes of nation-building and aspirations related to that, such as, the end of corruption, socialist ideologies, the evils of feudalism. A popular way to capture these nation-building goals was by humanising the nation a