Shakun Batra, the director, doesn't offer a cure. He offers a diagnosis. He whispers that love isn’t about fixing each other. It’s about standing in the same downpour without an umbrella, and choosing not to leave.

Because that is what a family is. A broken frame holding a picture that no longer exists. And you carry it anyway.

The tragedy of Kapoor & Sons is not the fire. It is not the car crash. It is the space between a hug and a betrayal.

When the flood finally comes, the house collapses. But the frame—that crooked, wet, desperate frame of a family photo—survives.

In the summer of 2016, a monsoon threatened to wash away a small house in Coonoor. Inside that house, the Kapoor family was already drowning.