Alia Bhatt closed out her Ganpati week the way most of Instagram does now, with a carousel. Posted Saturday, it traces the Kapoor household's Ganesh Chaturthi from Bappa's arrival through to the visarjan send-off, and it's got the whole family in frame.

Ranbir Kapoor shows up doing the aarti. So does Neetu Kapoor. Raha appears in a few frames too, caught mid-celebration rather than posed for the camera. Alia herself is seen performing the pooja, and her side of the family joined in as well, with mother Soni Razdan and sister Shaheen Bhatt part of the week's gatherings.

The fashion did what it always does at Bollywood Ganpati season, which is quietly become half the story. Alia cycles through a pink look and a yellow ensemble across the days, ethnic wear built for a week of pooja rather than a single red carpet moment. Then, almost as an aside, the same carousel drops in a silver saree from what looks like an unrelated shoot. It's an odd splice, festival photos next to a fashion plate, but that's how these posts work now, a week's worth of a life filed under one caption.

That caption kept it simple. "The week that was," Alia wrote, followed by "गणपती बाप्पा मोरया." No long note, no tagging spree, just the pictures doing the talking.

Ganpati posts from film families draw attention every year less for the festival itself and more for the rare unposed glimpse they offer, Raha caught mid-frame, Ranbir at the aarti rather than an event. It's the difference between a red carpet appearance and a family album, and fans tend to linger longer on the second kind.

On the work side, Alia's calendar is filling in around the festivities. She was last on screen in Alpha, released a couple of months back, and she's now lining up Love & War, which reunites her with Ranbir Kapoor and also stars Vicky Kaushal. The film is currently pegged for a January 21 release.

Whether that date holds through the run-up to next year's award season chatter is the next thing to watch. For now, the Kapoor household has wrapped its Ganpati week, and Alia's carousel is the record of it, aartis, ethnic wear and one stray saree shoot, all filed under one caption before the year turns back to release dates and trailers.