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How to Ruin Diwali(2026)

Also known as Como Acabar com o Diwali: Conhecendo a Família • How to Ruin Diwali: Meet the Parents

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Rated 121 episodeSeason 1
Comedy
Premieres Oct 30, 2026

What to Expect

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Mmabatho Nkomo’s perfectionism is a recipe for painfully awkward comedy: the harder she tries to make a good impression, the more room there is for a disastrous misstep. How to Ruin Diwali turns social embarrassment into a brisk chain of blunders, with attempts at damage control producing fresh complications. The humor is light, but the discomfort is specific, being desperate to get things right in front of future in-laws.

Her future father-in-law’s exposed affair leaves Mmabatho trying to repair relationships she has barely begun to understand. With Diwali only days away, unfamiliar customs and wounded family bonds make reconciliation more complicated than a simple apology. That gives the chaos a personal cost: she wants to bring the family back together without becoming the cause of another rupture.

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meet-the-family comedy, cringe comedy and escalating blunders

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Comedy

Length

Season 1 · 1 episodes

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Official Premise

When overachieving perfectionist Mmabatho Nkomo meets her fiancé’s traditional Indian family for the first time, her desperate attempt to make a good impression goes badly wrong. She accidentally exposes her future father-in-law’s secret affair. With Diwali only days away, Mmabatho must navigate unfamiliar cultural territory and try to reunite the family she has torn apart — without creating even more chaos.

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