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Synopsis

Bitti Mishra (Kriti Sanon) is a young contemporary girl in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, who is the apple of her father's eye. Like most Indian mothers, Bitti's mother Susheela (Seema Pahwa) wants to see her daughter get married to a nice man from a good family. But Bitti is open minded, smokes, goes around with boys and thus can't stand the conservative thinking of local prospective grooms. Bitti however wants a husband who understands her and more importantly, who accepts her exactly the way she is.

Narottam (Pankaj Tripathi) is Bitti's father who wants Bitti to do whatever she wants to do. Susheela is a teacher in the local primary school. Narottam runs a sweets shop in Bareilly. Bitti herself has a job with the electricity department of the city.

She feels she's found that special someone when she reads a book called 'Bareilly Ki Barfi' and finds herself described and accepted in the pages of the book. She returns home and decides to track down the author, mentioned on the back cover as 'Pritam Vidrohi' (Rajkummar Rao), happy and hopeful about the fact that there exists someone who could love her the way she is.

On her search she crosses paths with Chirag Dubey (Ayushmann Khurrana), who owns a printing press and who helped publish the book. What Bitti doesn't know, however, is that Chirag is, in fact, the true author of the book. Chirag was heartbroken when he wrote the book, but wanted to protect the identity of his ex, Babli (Naila Grewal) (who got married), and thus published the book under the name of Pritam, his best friend. Chirag wrote the book over 5 years ago. Since Bitti thinks herself to be Barfi, Chirag intends to find out if she is indeed like his ex-girlfriend, a coincidence that might give him a second chance at love.

Bitti bought the book from Chirag's friend Munna (Rohit Choudhary), who has a bookstore at the railway station. Bitti is very impressed with the book and wants to meet Pritam, who she thinks understands her completely. She meets Munna and wants Pritam's address. Munna tells Chirag. Chirag asks Munna to bring Bitti to his press. Bitti tells Chirag that she is the Bareilly Ki Barfi and wants to meet Pritam and find out how he knows her so well. Chirag refuses to give Pritam's address but offers to be a messenger between Pritam and Bitti. Letterbaazi starts. Bitti and Chirag spend a lot of time together and Chirag realizes that Bitti is just like her ex.

Bitti expresses her disappointment to Chirag that after so many letters Pritam has not consented to meet her even once. Unwilling to do away with the charade just yet, he arranges for Bitti to meet the real Vidrohi. He goes to Lucknow and brings back his friend, Pritam Vidrohi, who had left town soon after the novel had been published.Chirag finds that Pritam has told his family that he is a Mercedes salesman in Lucknow but is actually a Saree salesman. Chirag tracks Pritam down and forces him to meet Bitti. He wants Pritam to break Bitti's heart by acting like a complete jerk. Pritam is actually a very nice and shy guy, so Chirag trains him to be a jerk, a "Rangbaaz".

The first meeting between Bitti and Pritam is hilarious. Pritam acts like a proper goon and angers Bitti. Bitti is initially shocked at the ruffian-like behavior of Vidrohi, having imagined him in different light from having read his letters.Next, Chirag takes him to lunch with Bitti's parents. But they love his "Rangbaaz" style. They start to look at Pritam as a prospective groom for Bitti. Bitti is also impressed with the way Pritam impressed her parents. Soon though, she seems to grow fond of him, believing him to be misunderstood by society much like herself.Bitti starts falling for Pritam, but Pritam is actually into Bitti's friend Rama (Swati Semwal). Chirag wants Pritam to leave, but Bitti gets him to extend his stay in Bareilly. This angers Chirag, & Pritam is forced to confess his feelings for Rama.

Meanwhile Bitti's mom wants Chirag to convince Pritam to marry Bitti. Chirag, who had planned for Pritam to exit the scene after driving Bitti away, is now forced to malign him so that Bitti's parents don't see him as a worthy suitor for her.Chirag tells Bitti's mom that Pritam is divorced. Then Chirag tells Pritam to declare his love for Rama in front of Bitti. But Rama refuses to marry a divorcee. Pritam, who liked Rama back, now revolts against the manipulative Chirag and refuses to put an end to the whole charade.Pritam challenges Chirag that he will now steal Bitti from him, just to spite him.

Munna advises Chirag to bare his feelings to Bitti, but Chirag says that the time has passed. Bitti is now enamored with Pritam, and knows he is not a bad guy. Chirag protests that she is falling in love with him too fast, but Bitti says that Chirag has spent too much time with her and never fell in love with her. Bitti and Pritam's engagement is fixed and Pritam goes to Chirag to gloat. Chirag threatens to reveal the truth to Bitti.

On the day of the engagement Chirag meets Bitti to tell the truth but finds that she is happy. He doesn't say anything. Chirag goes back to Pritam and give him his blessings for the wedding with Bitti. Pritam invites Chirag for the engagement.

On the eve of the event, he writes a final, heartfelt letter to Bitti using his Vidrohi alias. He gives the letter to Pritam to read at the ceremony but ends up having to read it himself to Bitti when Pritam complains of a sore throat.

This becomes the turning point for Bitti to reveal that she had known for some time that Chirag was the real author, and that Pritam had agreed to play along so that Bitti could find out whether Chirag was really in love with her (or only at the idea of her being an image of his ex-girlfriend).

Finally, Chirag and Pritam both marry their chosen partners, Bitti and Rama respectively, and lead happily married lives in Bareilly.