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* [[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 [[Please Dump Me|stops pursuing her]]

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* [[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 ~~destiny~~ and encouraged her to mingle with English society.

* [[Can't Act Perverted Toward a Love Interest]]: a variant

* [[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.

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* [[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. Then he met Arjun and realized what the situation actually was (see below), and that his advice actually complicated the issue

* {{Spoiler|[[Last Girl Wins|Last Guy Wins]]}}

* [[The Reveal]]: {{Spoiler|Arjun knew English all the time.}}

* [[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. {{Spoiler|He says the speech in perfect English (which means that he understood perfectly everything that was said), and leaves, prompting Jasmeet to have a [[Love Epiphany]] and [[Runaway Bride|run behind him, leaving Charlie at the altar]]}}

* [[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]]: Charlie

* [[Wrong Guy First]]: {{Spoiler|Charlie}}

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