The Vaanar family on the treehouse deck at golden hour

Vaanar Tales

Small Vaanars, Big Adventures

A family of monkeys lives in a treehouse in an ancient temple valley with a small yellow plane that could take them anywhere — but the best adventures happen before it ever takes off.

Meet the family All 52 episodes

52 × 7 minutesAges 4–8Made for co-viewing

Six of themThe familyTwo parents, three children and the langur next door who only came to deliver a banana. Season oneEvery episodeOne game, one drafted grown-up and one small lesson, fifty-two times over. At homeGames to playEvery game in the show can be played on your floor with two boxes and a tea towel. On this pageCatch the BananaBholu keeps dropping his delivery. Help Kapi catch it before it hits the ground.

Meet the family

Everyone in the valley

The children are a proper sibling system: the eldest who needs to be in charge, the middle one who enforces the rules, and the youngest who simply wants the thing. The grown-ups are funny because they are real, not because they are foolish.

Hover to hear them. Tap anyone to open their model sheet.

The world

The Valley

A wide, sunlit basin of temple ruins, giant rounded boulders, banana groves and a turquoise lake with a waterfall. The ruins aren’t haunted or magical — they’re a playground. Every carved pillar is a goalpost, every courtyard a runway, every stone wall an air-traffic-control tower.

The map on the wall

The kids drew it and it is wrong in charming ways. The one place on it that nobody has visited is the Far Hill, in the corner, marked with a question mark.

The family plane — side, three-quarter, top and cabin cutaway

The plane

Yellow, red, and always needing something

A single-engine propeller plane with a blue prop and a winged-monkey emblem, patched and well-loved. It lives on a dirt strip below the treehouse, under a windsock on a bamboo pole.

Four seats: Maya at the controls, two kids up front, and a back seat that was never designed for Baba.
It rattles. Chintu hears it first, every time.
The plane could take them anywhere, which is exactly why the show keeps it on the ground.
When it does fly, it is the reward — never the premise.

Season one

Fifty-two games

Every episode is one game, one drafted grown-up, one small lesson. The Far Hill is visited at 12, half-walked at 26, returned to at 30, sent a postcard at 42 and answered at 52. The question mark never comes off the map.

Episode 1 plays here. Put the cursor on its card and the storyboard opens — press play and all 111 panels run with the narration.

Play the Vaanar way

Games for your floor

Every recurring prop in the show is something a child can make, and every recurring game is something a family can play on the floor. Ten of these come straight out of Episode 1 — the crate cabin, the leaf boarding passes, the cold cup of chai — with the storyboard panel they came from.

Everything the games are made of

The toy plane · aviator goggles · the red cap, forwards or backwards · the pink bow · Tara’s red scarf sash · Baba’s chai cup · the newspaper · the big spanner · Maya’s gloves · the coconut-oil pot · the wooden ruler · banana leaves as tickets, napkins, invoices and safety cards · bananas as currency · and two crates and a map, which together are anything the kids need them to be.

The Far Hill seen from over the wing at golden hour

Nobody has been to the Far Hill

The one place on the map with a question mark. Seen only from a distance, at golden hour, from over the wing. It is the series’ slow-burn mystery, it is answered one episode at a time, and what’s there is not treasure.