Krish Malhotra (Arjun Kapoor), a fresh Engineer from IIT Delhi, now a student pursuing his MBA at the IIM Ahmedabad, Gujarat, comes from a troubled, rich family of Punjabi Hindu origin based in Delhi. His mother Kavita Malhotra (Amrita Singh) is often beaten by his father Vikram Malhotra (Ronit Roy). He meets his classmate Ananya Swaminathan (Alia Bhatt), economics topper in her college, who comes from a conservative Tamil Hindu Brahmin family. Ananya is a beautiful girl. Krish and Ananya, initially quarrel, but soon become friends and start studying together. Ananya, though an economics topper is unable to answer simple questions to her professor who chides her in turn. Ananya finds that Krish is a genius and starts taking his help in academics. Krish is attracted to Ananya and could not control himself, so one day he tells Ananya that either they end their friendship or she kisses himself because while close to her Krish is distracted too much to her in order for him to focus on studies. Soon they begin dating, and stay together for their next 22 months on the IIM campus..