Mohit Chaddha (Ayushman Khurana) is a successful senior marketing executive in a major airline company in Delhi. Mayera Sehgal (Sonam Kapoor), the love of his life is also a successful career woman is wants to marry him.

However, Mr Vinod Kumar Sehgal (Rishi Kapoor), who is a retired government bureaucrat is adamant to marry off his daughter to a rich guy and is completely opposed to Mohit when he asks his permission to marry his daughter. So Mohit has to try his best to win his girlfriend's father so that he can convince him to let him marry his daughter.

Things take an ugly turn when recession hits his company and he is laid off along with many other employees. At a time when it seems that his dreams have been crushed, he sees no hope of getting out of this situation. Mohit, now being sandwiched between two conditions, should now find a way out to hide this harsh truth from Mr Sehgal and also find a job for himself.