在这部爱的盛宴爱情片中,据统计，印度平均每小时就有一个女孩因为嫁妆而失去生命。菇莉热孜·卡迪尔（小名菇露）是一个充满梦想、智慧而美丽的销售员，各方面都很优秀的她却因给不起嫁妆饱受羞辱。在一次恋情因嫁妆而破裂之后，受伤的菇露彻底放弃了结婚的念头，决定假借法律条款设计一个骗局，并计划用骗到的钱实现去美国学设计的梦想。一个看似完美的骗局悄然上演，原本波澜不惊的计划，却因塔如克·海德尔（小名塔如）的出现发生天翻地覆的变化..
A deliciously romantic coming together of Gulrez "Gullu" Qadir (Parineeti Chopra) a Hyderabadi shoe-sales girl disillusioned with love because of her encounters with dowry-seeking men; and Tariq "Taru" Haidar (Aditya Roy Kapur) a Lucknawi cook who can charm anybody with the aroma and flavours of his biryani and kebabs. In the clash of diametrically opposite but equally spicy cultures of Hyderabad and Lucknow, Gullu and Taru arrive at a "tuning-setting", rewrite traditional recipes of love, crush old-fashioned world-view and make their own masaledaar albeli rangreli pichchar - Daawat-e-Ishq.
