If filmmaker Sooraj Barjatya ends up making another film in the Hum Apke Hain Kaun series, the heroine will be an unlikely one — a fish-loving Syrian Christian Keralite nurse married into a Hindu Punjabi family (where women were expected to stay vegetarian) of a leading paediatrician practicing in Mumbai, hailing from Amritsar. The rest of the template will be untouched — Karva Chauth fasting, anniversary bashes, gala dinners prepared by loving daughters-in-law and, not to forget, house helps who are treasured as blood relations.

In his prologue to the recently-released book 1959: A Love Story (Published by BecomeShakespeare.com) a tribute to joint and extended families by author Asha Anand, Barjatya has stopped short of declaring the deadline for the film, but exclaimed loudly: "Aunty, your book can be made into such a fine film! We have such a lovely character of the heroine that is You! ...If any family fits into the families shown in Hum Aapke Hain Koun and Hum Saath-Saath Hain, it will be yours Aunty!" The filmmaker says that reading the book "makes you want to go home, plan a family dinner and laugh together."