During a cruise trip meant to celebrate their parents 30th anniversary, a brother and sister from a Punjabi family deal with their family consideration on their romantic life.
The real power of Zoya Akhtar's direction can be seen in those subtle moments when the camera rests on the face of a female character as she visibly struggles to contain her seething emotions -- and then fails.
Chopra's face could well launch a thousand ships; her lilting close-ups here, as Ayesha's secret emerges, reveal the actress as an unusually sensitive and responsive beauty.
The travails of the poor little rich were more sharply explored in Mira Nair's Monsoon Wedding, which similarly used a captive setting to herd together conflicting emotions and expose uncomfortable family secrets.
