Daawat-e-Ishq

Daawat-e-Ishq (2014) is an Indian romantic comedy-drama directed by Habib Faisal, available to watch online on iFILM. It stars Parineeti Chopra and Aditya Roy Kapur.

Gulrez has had it with marriage prospects who haggle over her family's finances. Her plan: find one of these dowry-hungry men, build a case under Section 498A — India's anti-dowry law — and clean him out. The mark she picks is Tariq, a gifted cook from Lucknow who puts his whole soul into biryani and has absolutely no idea what's coming.

Faisal wraps a pointed argument about dowry culture inside a road-movie romance, and it mostly works because both leads are sharp enough to sell the tonal shifts. The Lucknow food sequences alone are worth the runtime. Stream Daawat-e-Ishq (2014) online on iFILM.