On most Saturday nights, Pooja Makanjani and her family enjoy a tradition.

They all gather around the TV to watch a Bollywood movie together.

Bollywood movies tend to be long, they tend to be like 2-3 hours long, so it's like a whole

night's production.

There's like lots of popcorn and candy and it's fun.

Pooja is 45.

She's a writer and she and her 11-year-old daughter live with Pooja's parents in their

house in Central New Jersey.

They moved in in 2016 after Pooja separated from her then husband.

It was a situation that was really familiar to me.

My family is Indian American and multi-generational living arrangements are common, please culturally.

I grew up in a multi-generational home with my paternal grandparents.

So it was a situation that felt familiar and then I felt I could navigate, especially

at a time that I was feeling really vulnerable.

Pooja says living under the same roof as her parents has practical benefits.

They divide the housework and the childcare.

She's noticed some cultural benefits too, especially for her daughter.

We speak Sindhi, which is a South Asian language, and I code switch when I speak to my parents

so I speak partially in English and in Sindhi and sort of we go back and forth.

My daughter has picked up Sindhi, which is like a lesser known South Asian language just

because it's in her world and she has such an affinity for South Asian food.

You know, I don't think she could live without my mom's bianny now.

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