28, September 2025

CARE, CONFLICT AND FALLIAL PITEY: UNPACKING GREIF AND INTERGENERATIONAL TRAUMA IN MOVIE “HOW TO MAKE MILLIONS BEFORE GRANDMA DIES”

VOLUME-9; ISSUE-9; SEPT-2025

Author(s): 1. Divyanshi Pal, 2. Aakriti Varshney

Authors Affiliations:

  1.  Master’s  student, Gautam Buddha University, Greater Noida, U.P., India
  2. Head & Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Deptt. of Clinical Psychology, Shanti Home Advanced De-Addiction Mental Health Clinic & Psychiatric Rehabilitation Center, Greater Noida, U.P., India

DOIs:10.2017/IJRCS/202509003     |     Paper ID: IJRCS202509003


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Abstract: In the era where contemporary cinema often prioritizes spectacle, instant gratification and fragmented gratification, “How to make millions before grandma dies (2024)” offers a rare, emotionally grounded delineation of intergenerational relationship, cultural responsibility and filial piety. This paper explores the various psychological experiences of the characters through various psychological theories that unpack the movies exploration of grief, greed, attachment, family trauma within a Southeast Asian collectivist context. The film treatise the emotionally distant familial structures and repositions the caregiving as a path for bandaging the bonds and relational healing and moral growth. Through its subtle narrative and culturally embedded values in the story, it made it more relevant to the generation often caught between the individualism and the inherited expectations’ the analysis shows the emotional shifts, the depth of the bonds and the emotional awakening through anticipatory grief.

Greif, Loss, filial piety, intergenerational family psychology

Divyanshi Pal,  Aakriti Varshney (2025); Care, Conflict and Fallial Pitey: Unpacking Greif and Intergenerational Trauma in Movie “How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies”, International Journal of Research Culture Society,    ISSN(O): 2456-6683,  Volume – 9,   Issue –  9,  Pp.14-18        Available on – https://ijrcs.org/

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