- Kaira is a budding cinematographer in search of a perfect life. Her encounter with Jug, an unconventional thinker, helps her gain a new perspective on life. She discovers that happiness is all about finding comfort in life's imperfections.
- This is the story of Kaira, a budding cinematographer in search of perfect life. A chance encounter with Jug, an unconventional thinker, helps her gain new perspective about life. She discovers that happiness is all about finding comfort in life's imperfections.
- The film is set in Mumbai and Goa. Kaira (Alia Bhatt) is a promising cinematographer. Fatima (Ira Dubey), Jackie (Yashaswini Dayama) and Ganju (Gautmik) are her three best friends. Her cheerful life becomes a nightmare when the guy she loves, a film producer, Raghuvendra (Kunal Kapoor) ends up engaged to someone else, and for whom she breaks up with a Restobar owner, Sid (Angad Bedi), in between.
Kaira is lured by Raghuvendra for a film in the US. He uses the film to spend more time with Kaira and then to get her to fall in love with him. He then leaves for the US early and calls from the US that he got together with his ex and is now engaged to her, leaving Kaira in a lurch. Her landlord turns her out of her apartment because the building association wants to rent apartments only to married couples. This serves as a catalyst for her shift to Goa to live with her parents, a fact she detests. All this ends up with her spending many sleepless nights.
While in Goa she seeks out Dr. Jehangir Khan (Shah Rukh Khan), a Goan psychologist after accidentally having heard him talk at a Mental Health Awareness Conference for her insomnia. After the session, Raghuvendra comes to meet Kaira in Goa and Kaira tells him that she has decided not to work on his movie. Raghu accuses Kaira of not being committed to any sort of relationship with him and cannot understand why she is upset at his engagement with his ex.
Meanwhile, she meets a musician, Rumi (Ali Zafar), whom she starts to develop feelings for, but ditches before anything serious can happen. She also meets her younger brother, Kiddo. Matters with her family come to a head when Kaira has an outburst at a family get-together where she confronts her parents about them abandoning her for years at her grandparents' house.
Kaira's dad did not have successful export business in Goa. So, he traveled all over the world, with his wife (Kaira' mother). But for that, they left Kaira at her grandparents' house. Kaira would yearn for them to come back, but then she heard her mother talking that they cannot afford to keep Kaira with them. Kaira was devastated but decided to adjust to her new life with her grandparents. But then 1 year later, the business picks up and her parents come back to Goa and decide to take Kaira back. Kaira could never forgive them for their betrayal.
She finally narrates the story of her abandonment to Jug who tells her that she fears abandonment so much that she doesn't allow herself to commit in relationships for fear of being abandoned. He convinces her that she doesn't need to forgive her parents for abandoning her but she can as an adult see them as two regular people who made a mistake. He says, "Don't let the past blackmail your present to ruin a beautiful future." After this, Kaira makes an effort to reconcile with her parents and also works to finish her short film. In their last session, Kaira asks Jug out on a date, but Jug refuses as that would be unprofessional on his part.
The movie ends with a viewing of Kaira's film where she meets a furniture dealer who might turn out to be a prospective lover.
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