The film passes by pleasantly enough past all its expected roadsigns, providing a smile and an occasional chuckle but making you wish for more newness, both in its characters and in the way it wends its way onward.

Batra falls into a formulaic trap on several occasions. But the way he depicts the growing closeness between Rahul and Riana is sincere, and the way their relationship ends up is definitely a stretch for a Hindi film.

The leads are charming and the dialogue has a knowing wit.

It's a perceptive performance — full of reactions and uncertainty and incomplete thoughts — that does the usual modern-girl thing without committing to a type. In a way, this is her anti-romcom, and everyone else is just living (in) it.