Printable Desi Party Games

Six games, one host, and a room shouting film names over each other. One person holds the answers, everybody else guesses. No screen, no speaker, no playlist, and no internet once it is printed.

Built for a room that spans four decades. The grandparents get Sholay, the cousins get Animal, and the arguments in between are the point.

The Guess the Movie from the Image round is hand-drawn and does not exist anywhere else. One object per film, and nothing else to go on.

The minimum useful print is ten sheets, not the full pack. You can be playing this tonight.

Every plot is one sentence, every sentence is true about the film, and none of them sound like the film. A hint sits underneath for the room that has gone quiet.

Three games come out of the same 60 films, so the pack changes shape depending on who is in the room.

The same game as the Mega Hits pack, built on 40 films chosen for Diwali night. Some have the Diwali scene everyone remembers. Some are just the ones that get quoted at every Diwali party.

Every plot is one sentence, every sentence is true about the film, and none of them sound like the film. A hint sits underneath for the room that has gone quiet.

Most Diwali games ask what Diwali is. This one assumes you already know, and asks what you have been watching for the last fifty years instead.

The same game as the other two packs, built on 60 films chosen for a wedding week. Some are the ones every sangeet plays. Some are just the films two families can agree on at eleven at night.

Every plot is one sentence, every sentence is true about the film, and none of them sound like the film. A hint sits underneath for the room that has gone quiet.

Most wedding games ask the couple questions nobody else can answer. This one hands the whole room the same puzzle, which is the point when half of them have only just met.

Music bingo for a desi room. Put the playlist on, play a song, and anyone holding that title crosses the square. First full card wins.

The 100 song list runs from the 1950s to the 2020s, so the aunties and the cousins are both in the game. No two of the 200 cards are the same, which is the part that stops the arguments.

The same game as the Desi Gaane edition, built on a Diwali party playlist and its own artwork.

These are dance floor songs chosen to suit a Diwali party. They are not devotional songs, and it is worth knowing that before you print.

The same game as the other two Bingo packs, built on 100 songs a sangeet actually plays. Put the playlist on, play a song, and anyone holding that title crosses the square.

It is the one wedding function where a music game genuinely gets played, and it needs nothing from the couple. Half the room has only just met, and this hands all of them the same thing to do.

Ready-made Spotify and YouTube playlists come with it, reached by a QR code on the instructions. Nobody has to build a playlist the week of a wedding.