The Great Indian Family is a family comedy-drama about a simple, small-town young man named Ved Vyas Tripathi alias Bhajan Kumar (Vicky Kaushal) who belongs to a middle-class orthodox Brahmin family. Bhajan Kumar shares an unbreakable bond with his family members which includes his father, uncle, aunty, sister and others. Bhajan Kumar is famous for his spiritual songs and is respected by everyone in the locality whose life unravels when his true identity is revealed to the world that he was born in a Muslim family and adopted by a Brahmin.