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Kapoor's final release in 2016 was the rock musical drama Rock On 2, a sequel to 2008's Rock On!!. She was cast alongside Farhan Akhtar, Arjun Rampal and Prachi Desai. She played the role of Jiah Sharma, an introverted singer and keyboard player, who suffers a neglectful relationship with her father.[60] To prepare, she spent time reading books in isolation[61] and undertook vocal training under the singer Samantha Edwards.[62] Namrata Joshi of The Hindu disliked the film and considered Kapoor's performance "self-consciously meek and submissive".[63] Rock On 2 did not recoup its ₹450 million (US$5.6 million) investment, thus emerging as a commercial failure at the box office.[64]

In 2017, Kapoor starred in Shaad Ali's romantic comedy Ok Jaanu, in her second collaboration with Aditya Roy Kapur.[65] A remake of Mani Ratnam's Tamil romantic drama O Kadhal Kanmani (2015), the film was produced by Karan Johar under the banner of Dharma Productions. Kapoor next appeared in the romance Half Girlfriend, in which she was paired opposite Arjun Kapoor. It was based on Chetan Bhagat's novel of the same name, and reunited her with director Mohit Suri. In a review of the latter film, Raja Sen of NDTV considered it to be a "preposterously dimwitted romance" and criticised Kapoor as "shrill and insubstantial".[66] Later in 2017, Kapoor appeared in Apoorva Lakhia's Haseena Parkar, a biopic of terrorist Dawood Ibrahim's sister, who ran a crime ring of her own. Kapoor played the titular role, alongside her brother Siddhanth Kapoor, who essayed Ibrahim's character.[67] The film met with negative reviews upon release;[68][69] Anna M. M. Vetticad of Firstpost considered Kapoor's performance to be as "bland as the screenplay", adding that "she tries to appear mature and menacing, but the effort shows too much".[70] None of her 2017 releases performed well at the box office.[71]