At last, the Imran Khantent you've been waiting for.

As Mere Brother Ki Dulhan (2011) opens, London-based businessman Luv Agnihorti (Ali Zafar) is breaking up with his long-time girlfriend Piali Patel (Tara D'Souza).  It's a mistake and they both know it, but as the fight drags on they can't stop saying terrible things to one another.  When Piali leaves, Luv decides that he's done with romance.  He just wants to get married, and so he calls his younger brother Kush (Imran Khan) in Mumbai and asks him to arrange a match.  

 

Kush is a photographer and an assistant director for Bollywood movies.  (This will be important later.)  He's also a spectacularly decent guy and is devoted to his brother, so after a quick musical number he subjects himself to a montage of comically unsuitable potential brides.  Frustrated, Kush changes his tactic, using his photography skills to put together a slick and filmi matrimonial ad, which leads to . . . more unsuitable potential brides.

And then Kush gets a call from retired bureaucrat Dilip Dixit (Kanwaljit Singh).  Dixit has a daughter, Dimple, who is of marriageable age, is educated, and grew up in London.  The families meet, and Kush is shocked to discover that Dimple is "D" (Katrina Kaif),  a woman he met in college when she staged an illegal concert in front of the Taj Mahal.  Dimple is just as blunt and strong-willed and free-spirited as Kush remembers, but she's ready for marriage.  Kush likes her, the families like each other, and (perhaps most importantly) Dimple's beloved autistic brother Ajju (Arfeen Khan) approves of the match, so after a quick video chat with Luv, the wedding is officially on.

 

This is a romantic comedy, not an "Arranged Marriage is Great" comedy, so there's trouble ahead.  Dimple and Kush spend a lot of time together while preparing for the wedding, and kuch kuch hota hai - they develop feelings for each other.  Dimple tries to talk to Kush about it, but he can't admit the truth to himself, let alone to Dimple, until after the engagement ceremony, at which point they are stuck.  Dimple wants to elope, but Kush isn't willing to hurt their families.  She tries kidnapping him, but it doesn't go well.

 

  However, when all you have is a Bollywood assistant director, every problem starts to look like a Bollywood plot.  Kush and Dimple and Ajju (because, as he explains, Dimple doesn't keep secrets from him) come up with a complicated scheme to make everybody happy, starting with a phone cal to Luv's ex, Piali.

 

A good romantic comedy is like an episode of Columbo; everybody knows the lovers are going to wind up together, but you watch because you want to see how it happens.  Complicated schemes are not unusual, but what makes Mere Brother Ki Dulhan so much fun is Kush's dogged determination to make sure absolutely everybody gets what they really want.  Just this once, everybody lives happily ever after.