More like Gullak
Cross-media recommendations across film, TV, games, books & music — picked by taste.
Gullak captures the texture of ordinary middle-class life in India — cramped lanes, sibling squabbles, parental pride, and small domestic dramas that quietly accumulate into something deeply felt. Watching it signals a taste for warmth over spectacle, for stories that find meaning in the everyday friction of people who love each other imperfectly. The recommendations here follow that current: family bonds under pressure, humour rooted in recognisable human feeling, and the particular tension of belonging to a place and a household at the same time.
About Gullak
Gullak is an Indian web series created by Shreyansh Pandey for the streaming service SonyLIV under the banner of The Viral Fever (TVF). The series revolves around the Mishra family, comprising Santosh and Shanti Mishra and their sons Anand "Annu" Mishra and Aman Mishra and features Jameel Khan, Geetanjali Kulkarni, Vaibhav Raj Gupta and Harsh Mayar in the respective mentioned lead roles, with Sunita Rajwar as their neighbour.
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Films like Gullak
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Kumbalangi Nights
Four brothers navigate love and rivalry in a tight-knit hamlet, their bond tested and strengthened by one brother's romance.
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Golmaal 5
A returning ensemble comedy built around a familiar gang and the chaos they reliably generate together.
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Total Dhamaal
An unlikely cluster of squabbling, mismatched people chase a single goal across a comic, anarchic road-trip.
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Gully Boy
A young man from Dharavi uses his voice to articulate the pressures of the world pressing in around him.
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Bambukat 2
A man returns home carrying wounded pride, and the conflict between dignity and authority plays out in village life.
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Ghoomketu
A small-town dreamer gives himself a hard deadline to prove he belongs in a world indifferent to him.
Books to read after Gullak
More series like Gullak
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Guddan - Tumse Na Ho Payega
Guddan is thrust into an absurd domestic role and must find her footing inside a family she never expected.
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Guns & Gulaabs
An ordinary mechanic and a city cop are pulled into larger forces neither can fully control in a chaotic small town.
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Ishqbaaaz
Three brothers share an unbreakable bond even as dysfunction and new love complicate everything between them.
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Konuşanlar
Every guest carries a story with an unexpected side, surfaced through questions that invite genuine revelation.
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Bindiya Ke Bahubali
A family of gangsters held together by absurdity and shifting alliances — chaos managed through dark domestic comedy.
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The Great Indian Kapil Show
A comedian hosts a warm, high-energy variety show built on banter, celebrity guests, and a reliable ensemble.
Frequently asked
What should I watch after Gullak?
For more warm, slice-of-life Indian family storytelling, try Guns & Gulaabs — it blends small-town charm with comedy-drama, or Kumbalangi Nights, a film about brothers navigating family bonds with equal heart.
Are there any movies like Gullak?
Ghoomketu captures a similar small-town-meets-big-dream spirit through a relatable underdog story, while Kumbalangi Nights delivers the same kind of grounded, affectionate look at an imperfect family.
Is there a book like Gullak?
The payload includes Malela jiv, a work of Indian fiction that shares Gullak's regional, everyday sensibility — worth exploring if you want that same quiet, human-scale storytelling in prose form.