Ghar Waapsi

Story Line

In a scene from Disney+Hotstar’s Ghar Waapsi, an older friend takes Shekhar (Vishal Vashishtha) to the outskirts of Indore for a random football game. This friend asks Shekhar, “Akhri baar tuney itna zinda kab feel kiya tha?” after he says the feeling is like a “ferrari se tez heart rate.” Most stories about the struggles of middle-class people use phrases like these to show how they feel. After all, this is a place where it’s harder to talk about things like mental health, being open to everyone, etc. Ghar Waapsi is a good attempt to get to the heart of the middle-class malaise and shake it up. It does some predictable things that most modest dramas do, but inside its familiar walls is a story in the making about the middle classes’ lived-in problems and the many ways they try to deal with them