Namastey London

Namastey London (English: Greetings London) is a 2007 Indian romantic dramedy starring Akshay Kumar and Katrina Kaif. It also stars Rishi Kapoor.

Jasmeet "Jazz" Malhotra (Kaif) is the daugther of Manmohan Malhotra (Kapoor) and his wife Bebo, an Indian couple living in London. To her father's horror and her mother's secret pride, Jazz is, to all effects, a very western woman in looks, tastes, habits and heart. She is secretly dating her boss, the very rich and well connected British gentleman Charlie Brown (Clive Standen), so she sabotages any and every attempt her father does to settle her with Indian guys. However, Manmohan finally tires of what they see as Jasmeet's "insolence", so he ropes the full family to a trip to India with the every intention of marrying her there.

Once in India, the Malhotras meet Arjun Singh (Kumar), the son of one of Manmohan childhood friends, and a very typical young Indian man that doesn't know any English. Jasmeet is strong-armed into getting married with Arjun. Under the advice of her friend Imran (Upen Patel), she accepts, upon the condition that the final documentation must be filled in England. Arjun has fell in love with Jasmeet, so he immediately accepts the marriage, initially unaware that his bride has been forced into it.

But back in England Jasmeet surprises everybody by declaring that her marriage with Arjun is not valid (as there is no proof of the wedding), and that she intends to marry her boyfriend Charlie, who had already proposed to her. No one in her family takes this well, Arjun being hurt by this the most. However, Arjun considers himself married with Jasmeet and doesn't intend to lose her to any other man, so he begins a plan of his own...


 * Bad Date: the first scene of the film is Jazz sabotaging a Blind Date with an indian guy set up by their parents by deliberately pushing all the buttons that make an Indian girl "unsuitable" so the guy she was sent to meet her stops pursuing her
 * Can't Act Perverted Toward a Love Interest: a variant: Jasmeet cannot bring herself to have sex with her fiancé Charlie, but justifies herself and him to wanting to their wedding night.
 * Dating What Daddy Hates: Both Jazz and her Pakistani-descended friend Imran are dating British people, to their parents (and the parents of their partners) distress.
 * Freudian Excuse: The reason Jazz grew so westernized was because her mother Bebo, having being shunned and socially isolated by her husband for her weight and her lack of English knowledge, was determined that her daughter wouldn't suffer her same fate and encouraged her to mingle with English society.
 * It Seemed Like a Good Idea At the Time: Imran's advice to Jazz on how to deal with her Arranged Marriage (namely accept the situation, make it so the legal documentation doesn't get immediately processed, and then escape when back in a western country before they get a way to legally bind her) is not that bad of a plan when dealing with a forced marriage in a foreign country. Then he met Arjun and realized what the situation actually was (see below), and that his advice actually complicated the issue.
 * The Reveal:
 * Serial Spouse: Charlie. It's revealed that he has divorced twice already and intends to make Jasmeet his third.
 * Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace: a variant: on Jasmeet and Charlie's wedding, Arjun does this, with an speech where he proclaims his love for the bride... but instead of claiming that she should marry him, he wish her luck.
 * Terrible Interviewees Montage: in India, the Malhotras are subjected to a series of terrible interviews with potential husbands for her daughter, all of the guys being some brand of annoying even for Indian standards
 * Unwanted Spouse: Arjun for most of the film.
 * We Could Have Avoided All This: after discovering that Jasmeet accepted to marry him because she felt forced to, and now being in a situation where he is stranded in a foreign country being the Unwanted Spouse, he directly tells Jazz that had she actually spoken to him the truth he could have stopped the wedding and let her free, and they wouldn't be in their current predicament.
 * Wrong Guy First:
 * Wrong Guy First: