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TALKING THERAPY
The New Indian Express Thiruvananthapuram
|December 02, 2025
Perfect Family cast Girija Oak Godbole, Manoj Pahwa, and Neha Dhupia, and producer Pankaj Tripathi reflect on their mental health battles, Indian family's obsession with having children and parenting
THE opening line from Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina reads, "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." In Perfect Family, the Karkarias are also no different. Its members ache inside but always have a smile plastered on their face. Just another happy Indian family. Starring Manoj Pahwa, Seema Pahwa, Gulshan Devaiah, Girija Oak Godbole, and Neha Dhupia, the series, which has Pankaj Tripathi as one of the producers, is currently streaming on YouTube. It revolves around a Delhi Punjabi family who finds itself in a group therapy session after their youngest has to bear the brunt of their deep-seated issues.
This story is from the December 02, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Thiruvananthapuram.
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