The Art of Heart

Dil Dhadakne Do was not a disappointment at all. It had just about everything interesting that could happen to a typically insane (i.e. 'normal') family  on a cruise. As Pluto, the dog in the film, correctly mentioned that he was the only voice of reason in the entire saga. And that pretty much brings into question not just the good sense of the Mehra family, described in the movie, but also the good sense of the rest of us social animals.
The 'self-made man' Kamal Mehra (played by Anil Kapoor), whose business in on the downfall, tries to bring his business back in order by getting ready to wed his son with Mr. Sood's daughter who will go forward with buying 49% of his company's shares if the marriage is executed. And the marriage is no less than an execution because Mr. Mehra's son Kabir (played by Ranveer Singh) is in love with Farah Ali (played by Anushka Sharma) who is a club dancer and, hold your breath, a muslim! And Mr. Sood's daughter, Noorie, is in love with Rana, the son of a family hated by her parents (yes, that is so like the tragic tale of Romeo and Juliett) . And if this marriage between Kabir and Noorie were to take place, it wouldn't be the only depressing union in the family. Apparently, Mr. Mehra's own marriage is a disaster. And so is his daughter's, Ayesha (played by Priyanka Chopra). When Ayesha asks her mother, Neelam why she never considered divorce, she is told, "What kind of preposterous question is that? Is your marriage going well or what? Manav can provide for everything you need, can't he?"
The use of the phrase "provide for" infuriates Ayesha.
"What do mean, "provide for"? Is that the whole logic behind why you got me married to Manav? Because he can "provide for" me?"
It certainly seems that way. Ayesha, like the Elizabeth from Pride and Prejudice, lives in a world where the mothers and aunts have nothing to discuss except whose daughter or son is going around with whom. And who is the hot new pick of a husband for their respective daughters. What their children should be doing, should not be doing and so on and so forth. Ayesha, at one point in the film, barges into such a gathering of women (that looks like the assembly of witches from the Cinderella tale) and she asks, "Have you people nothing to talk of except such nonsense? Go find something else to do! Get a job!" And one of the ladies assembled there asks wondering to everyone, "Who is going to give us a job?"
Marrying Manav simply because he could "provide for" her certainly didn't make Ayesha happy. He is the masochist who believes that things are finally looking up for the women folk in the society now that he has performed the revolutionary act of "allowing" Ayesha to do her business which also happens to be the first instance of a working woman in the entire history of his family. And this hypocrisy of his is exposed by Sunny, the son of Mr. Mehra's manager, who dated Ayesha when they were teenagers. Too bad that Sunny was sent packing to the US by Mr. Mehra on the pretext of his education so that he could get a good rid of him.
Good sense finally prevails in the film though. Manav is chucked by Ayesha with the likelihood of her and Sunny coming back together. Noorie is let go of by Mr. Mehra when he finds her in a not so acceptable position with Rana. And Kabir sets out on the quest to get Farah back in his life jumping all the way out of the ship. And is later joined by his parents and Ayesha who come to rescue him out of the sea-water on a lifeboat. And as Pluto, the dog (voiced by Aamir Khan), says towards the end of the film not only do they succeed in saving their son from drowning but also their family.