When Shivshankar falls ill and greedy relatives threaten to sue the family for their house, Badki goes to Mumbai to find work, but she is continuously rejected due to her lack of education and qualifications.

Coached by Karan's friend Michelle, Badki learns how to speak English and how to dress modernly and goes by the name "Natasha."

Badki lies to her father and Chutki that she found work as an event planner and sends money for Shivshankar's medicines, house repairs, and a family lawyer.

Through one of her clients, Badki meets and falls in love with attorney Rohan in Zurich but then leaves him, fearing that he would be disgusted by her profession.

[6] During a shooting session in Varanasi, Mukerji's bodyguards aggressively moved media people and fans away from the film set.

Songs such as "Hum To Aise Hain" and "Kachchi Kaliyaan" featured playback singers such as Sunidhi Chauhan, Shreya Ghoshal and KK.

[12] Hindustan Times wrote that, "This one comes out smelling of mothballs, like a wedding dress stored for decades in an attic trunk.

Not surprising, since the plot is vintage 1977 from Aaina, and the award-winning Marathi film Doghi (1995)" (made by Sumitra Bhave with Uttara Baokar, Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Sonali Kulkarni and Renuka Daftardar).

Frank Lovece of Film Journal International said that the film put "glossy Bollywood confection" in a historical context, calling it a "good old-fashioned, Douglas Sirk-style women's weepie ... so universal you could substitute Joan Crawford for Rani Mukherji and New York City for Mumbai".

[14] Maitland McDonagh of TV Guide found the film "breaks no new ground but is solidly entertaining"[3] while David Chute of L.A. Weekly said, "The movie works so hard to transform its shocking subject into acceptable material for middlebrow melodrama that it never deals with it".

[15] Rachel Saltz of the New York Times termed the film, "A fascinating blend of musical, melodrama and feminist fairy tale".