
On one of these visits, a man advises him to do the right thing instead of running away. Now homeless, Kundan begins visiting other religious places around the country and volunteering in their activities to atone for his sins.

There, he is devastated to find out that Jasjeet died from his injuries, and he realises that his one-sided love for Zoya resulted in an innocent man's death. Jasjeet's parents take him back to their village, and Kundan tries to redeem himself with Zoya by taking her there with him. Hurt and angry, Kundan's family disowns him. While with Jasjeet, Kundan forgets about his own wedding ceremony with Bindiya and is too late when he finally returns. At the hospital, Jasjeet tells Kundan that it was Zoya's idea for him to pretend to be a Muslim so he could marry her, a plan he knew he should not have agreed to. He finds out soon after that Zoya tried to commit suicide, and Jasjeet was beaten up by Zoya's relatives for lying.

He crashes their wedding ceremony and tells Zoya's parents the truth about Jasjeet. This enrages him, as Zoya had used him and Kundan's religious differences to convince Kundan that she could not marry him. On the day of Zoya's wedding, Kundan finds out that Akram is a Sikh and his real name is Jasjeet Singh Shergill. He promises Zoya that he will also marry someone on the day of her wedding and forget all about her, and goes straight to his childhood friend Bindiya ( Swara Bhaskar), who has had a crush on him since they were kids. She asks Kundan to help convince her family about marrying Akram, and Kundan eventually agrees to get her wedding arranged. He asks her to be with him but she declines and tells him about her relationship with Akram. Kundan cannot contain his excitement, but Zoya barely remembers him. Zoya gets into Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi and starts making new friends, falling for student leader Akram Zaidi ( Abhay Deol).Įight years later, Zoya comes back home to Varanasi. After she leaves, Kundan tries to get on her family's good side by helping them with chores around their house. Zoya's family figures out that she likes a Hindu boy, and decide to send her away to Aligarh for further studies. She starts to avoid him on purpose as her family is very orthodox, and she knows for sure that her relationship with Kundan would go nowhere. She asks him to meet her in private, and when they do she finds out that Kundan is from a Hindu Brahmin family. Zoya slaps him multiple times, before getting quite fond of him and finally telling him her name. He immediately falls in love with her and for years would attempt to talk to her or flirt with her, while not even knowing her name.

While collecting donations at his teacher's house for Dussehra when he was a child, he sees Zoya ( Sonam Kapoor), a Muslim girl, praying in the adjacent room. Kundan Shankar ( Dhanush) is the only son of Tamil Hindu Brahmin parents settled in Varanasi.
