In 2013, Akhtar teamed up with Anurag Kashyap, Dibakar Banerjee and Karan Johar for "Bombay Talkies". It was made as a celebration of 100 years of Indian cinema. She then went on to direct "Dil Dhadakne Do" (2015), a film based on a dysfunctional Punjabi family starring Anil Kapoor as an egotistical industrialist, Shefali Shah as his bitter socialite-wife, and Priyanka Chopra and Ranveer Singh as their children. The film also featured Anushka Sharma and Farhan Akhtar as love interests for Ranveer Singh and Priyanka Chopra respectively.