The film goes into a flashback and shows scenes from Shimla of a free spirited-young Ved, a college going Ved and an adult Ved. Perplexed about Ved's presence, she moves around the office campus and Ved draws her attention with the "Don" personality from Corsica. Tara, after finishing a business meeting at Oracle in Tokyo, heads for refreshment where she finds a note titled "Don Returns". Ved returns to Delhi and takes the diamond ring returned to him by the affectionate transgender. Moved by this, his father forgives him for leaving engineering and lets Ved pursue his life as he wishes. Ved narrates his life story to his family members. The old story-teller criticizes Ved's irrationality and confronts him to complete his own story. After a tussle with his father, Ved gains introspection from a reflection in the mirror, he realizes that to complete his own story, he needs to meet the old story-teller. Ved comes back to Shimla and reveals he was jobless and wandering for six months. Next day, Ved continues his office routine with a change, gives a diamond ring to the transgender and he gets evicted from his workplace for his continuous mindless behaviors. Later Tara expresses her realization of hurting him and apologizes. She indirectly informs him she is fixated on Ved's divergent personality from Corsica, not the matured Ved who lives by societal conventions. Ved breaks down and his residual mental disorder is triggered.Īn exacerbated Ved due to his psychotic break, ends up upsetting his boss with a nonsensical presentation in a business meeting.
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The driver (played by Ishteyak Khan) narrates how his dreams of becoming a singer were crushed. On Ved's birthday, he proposes to Tara but she is unhappy with the real-life Ved. Each morning to evening, similar incidents repeat monotonously. He fixes a plan for meeting Tara again in the evening.
Ved leaves for his home and next morning Ved wakes up on time, completes the morning chores, wipes the car, ignores the transgender on the way, lets a female colleague into the lift-all this happens on his way to the office. She expects him to talk like the days in Corsica but Ved talks about business.
They plan for a date at a Japanese restaurant. One day, Tara surprisingly meets Ved, who is now a product manager. She is off to Delhi for work and four years have passed. Tara's father (played by Nikhil Bhagat) hands over his tea business to Tara, she expands it by starting a line of tea boutiques, taking the company ahead. The story flashes back to young Ved who questions the story-teller about the reason for happy times ending quickly and notices each story has a sad the episode in it.
When she realizes she is falling in love with Ved, Tara decides to leave Corsica despite the romantic friendship with him. They pretend to be "Don" and "Mona Darling" and talk in filmy dialogues. They come up with an amusing verbal pact to keep their real identities undisclosed. The film moves to real time where Tara meets adult Ved, while both are holidaying in Corsica. A flashback shows, as a child in Shimla, Ved is fascinated by the stories narrated by a road side story teller (Piyush Mishra) who keeps mixing up his characters. The film opens with Ved (Ranbir Kapoor) and Tara's (Deepika Padukone) monotonous back stories as people in the corporate world.