Baar Baar Dekho (2016)

Baar Baar Dekho
DirectorNitya Mehra
Box office₹62.7 crore

Plot

Diya Kapoor and Jai Varma are childhood sweethearts. Jai is a mathematics professor and Diya an artist. While Jai hopes to get a fellowship at Cambridge University, Diya wishes for them to get married. Jai reluctantly agrees to marry her but changes his mind because of the thought of the seven vows and the many rituals, as well as the fear of divorce. Jai protests that these rituals are meaningless and talks negatively about his wedding. He tells Diya that he has other plans for his bright future and she may not be a part of it. She walks away heartbroken. Jai gets drunk and passes out only to wake up in Thailand on his honeymoon. He discovers that it's been ten days since he married Diya, but he has no memory of it.

In 2018, Jai wakes up in Cambridge, finding Diya about to deliver their child. He discovers that it has been two years since his marriage, and realizes that he has been time traveling and has no control over it.

The next morning, Jai wakes up in 2034, and is a professor at Cambridge University. It has been eighteen years since his marriage, but his horror, Jai realizes that it is the day when he and Diya are divorced. Heartbroken, he returns home and pleads to return to the past to set things right.

Jai wakes up the next day, in 2023, realizing he is in the past, seven years after his marriage. He juggles between taking care of his family and career. However, Jai gives more priority to work and instead of going to Diya's first art exhibition, and he goes to his friend Chitra's place to help her with her breakup, where Chitra tries to seduce Jai. Believing it to be the cause of his divorce, Jai hastily returns home, but his family is unhappy with him.

Jai remains convinced that he has set things right. The next day, he wakes up in 2047 to find himself 60 years old. He finds out that his mother has died and everyone has gathered for her funeral. After the funeral, Jai is shocked that he and Diya are still divorced and that Diya has married art gallery owner Nikhil Khanna, her show opener, who enjoys the love of Jai's mother and children.

Reeling from this blow, Jai comes across the priest who had conducted his marriage, who warns him of the importance of time. Jai is given another opportunity to set things right as he goes back to 2023 on time to the same day, seven years after his marriage. This time, he sets things right. He spends time with his children, does his work well and makes Diya feel special, and attends her art exhibition. At the end of the day, Jai is a happy man.

Jai wakes up back into the present, the day after he argued with Diya about his life and his career, got drunk, and began the long mental voyage into his future while. Jai rushes back to Diya, cherishing every moment along the way, also glad to see his mother again. Jai reconciles with Diya and promises to be true to her. The film ends with them marrying and everyone dancing.

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