Vaidehi runs away from home just before the wedding ceremony. The unexpected happens on the day of the marriage of Vaidehi with Badrinath and Kritika with Bhushan. But she realises that her dreams to soar high would remain just dreams if she were to marry Badrinath as his father would never allow her to work. Vaidehi now seems obliged to agree to marry Badrinath. Rather, he offers to hunt for a suitable match for Kritika. But since Badrinath is in love with Vaidehi, he refuses to marry Kritika. But Vaidehi is not happy with the marriage proposal and she says so to Badrinath, instead offering her elder sister’s hand in marriage. The father meets Vaidehi’s parents and agrees to the marriage. Scared of his father and aware of his aversion to love affairs, Badrinath makes his bosom pal, Somdev (Sahil Vaid), take Vaidehi’s proposal to his father. He is very concerned about the weddings of his two daughters, Vaidehi and the older daughter, Kritika (Sukmani Lamba). Vaidehi’s father (Swanand Kirkire) is due to retire from his job in some time. Vaidehi has had a heartbreak in the past, her lover having duped the family of lakhs of rupees and having vanished with that. He tries to woo Vaidehi but she doesn’t think too much of him because he isn’t well-educated. He meets Vaidehi Trivedi (Alia Bhatt) there and falls head over heels in love with her. One day, Badrinath goes to Kota to attend his friend’s wedding.
Ambernath Bansal has a business of money-lending, and Badrinath helps his father in that business. Quite unknown to Ambernath Bansal, Urmila helps husband Alok in his automobile business and is actually an asset to the business. Alok had been in love with a girl but his father had forced him to marry Urmila, who, though very educated, dare not step out of the house to work in an office. Ambernath Bansal is of the firm belief that women must look after the household chores and not go out to work. Badrinath Bansal (Varun Dhawan) lives in Jhansi with his strict father, Ambernath Bansal (Rituraj Singh), mother, Shanti Bansal (Leena Prabhu), elder brother, Alok (Yash Sinha), and sister-in-law, Urmila (Shweta Basu).