On a technical level, Anand Rai’s film is no match for Akhtar’s: it has no visual aesthetic to speak of, and it’s unlikely that Rai will ever feel the need to do a musical number in one take, as Akhtar does here. To see how safe and self-satisfied Dil Dhdakne Do is, one need only compare it to Tanu Weds Manu: Returns. But the film is only intermittently farcical it keeps slipping either into melodrama, with characters threatening to slash their wrists and jump overboard, or into the corniest of romantic moods. Kabir is engaged to Nuri (Ridhima Sud)-his father basically pimps him out, since she’s the daughter of a potential investor-but he’s rapidly falling for Farah (Anushka Sharma), a dancer on the ship, while his betrothed only has eyes for another. Ayesha is married to Manav (Rahul Bose), but is still carrying a torch for her ex-boyfriend Sunny (Farhan Akhtar). There’s a good bedroom farce buried somewhere here. Will her resentment bubble up during the cruise, along with a dozen other grudges? Will everyone forget their troubles from time to time and dance? Will there be a voice-over supplied by an animal? You bet.

Daughter Ayesha (Priyanka Chopra) is upset her parents didn’t put her name on an invitation card announcing a pleasure cruise to celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary (to be fair, she has larger emotional fish to fry). Son Kabir (Ranveer Singh) is unhappy that his plane is being sold. His marriage to Neelam (Shefali Shah) has come apart at the seams, though they can’t summon up the will to leave each other.

Patriarch Kamal (Anil Kapoor), a self-proclaimed “self-made man', is trying to keep his business afloat. Dil Dhadakne Do concerns itself with the assorted issues of the Mehra clan, and expects us to be concerned as well.

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