Lawyer Meena once got hitched in a spontaneous Vegas wedding but now considering her political ambitions in DC, she’s heading to Houston to get the husband she hasn’t seen in years to finally sign the divorce papers.
But she didn’t realise that there’s a hurricane barrelling towards the Texan city, so she has no choice but to bunker down with Nikhil at their former house.
Despite the disaster theme and the promised “only one closet” trope, there wasn’t as much tension around the storm as I expected (my idea of a nightmarish scene), nor much else happening outside their present-day reconnection. For those seeking a quick and sweet read about a second-chance romance with forced proximity.
Meghna is a drama teacher whose mother would have preferred her to be an engineer. When her best friend and secret crush Seth asks her to be his best man at his wedding, she finally agrees to allowing her mother to arrange a match.
Karthik is an engineer whose mother has him on a tight schedule of suitor meetings but he actually doesn’t want to ever get married.
Meghna and Karthik strike a deal for a fake engagement so he gets a break from his mother’s matchmaking and she gets a plus-one to Seth’s wedding.
This was a charming debut, which injected a fresh take to the rather cliched storyline of Indian arranged marriages. The main characters were easy to warm to.
