One of the most important aspects of Geet's character is that she cares. She cares about the man she met on the train not having a ticket and almost falling onto the tracks, and she cares when he gets off on a random station. She befriends a handsome man and thinks about how she can set him up with her sister to make her happy. She notices when Aditya seems down and tries to pull him out of it. She might be a serial yapper, but she listens when it counts, even if her opinion often shines through words she tries to make comforting.
Yes, Geet is flawed, like any good character is. She effectively uses Aditya to imply an affair to get out of her marriage with Manjeet, which Aditya takes in good humour but still must bear the consequences of. She blames Aditya for her missing her train a second time, though in my opinion I think that is her responding as a woman alone at night who is painfully aware of the danger she could be in, and that her only chance at safety is also a man who she does not know that well. She is impulsive, often not considering other people when following her heart. But she does care.
A big moment is when Aditya drops Geet off at her family's house for the first time and tells her that he plans to leave. You can see how Kareena Kapoor plays it - fearful worry, from how I see it. But what is she to be worried about? She isn't aware of the Manjeet problem until later, and in fact bringing a boy home would bring up questions (which it does). I think in this moment, we see how perceptive Geet actually is. She understands the depth of his depression post the break up, might have even put the pieces together that he was considering suicide. She is afraid to leave him alone because she is a good friend and she cares.
There is more hints of Geet's perceptiveness. When she's about to leave her family's house to run away to Anshumun, she looks guiltily back, then promises that she will beg for forgiveness once she is married. She apologizes the moment she asks Aditya if it was his mother that ran away with another man. She is completely aware of her habit of speaking without thinking, acting with a disregard for the consequences. She is not just a naive manic pixie dream girl. She is a complex woman who maintains a bubbly outlook on life.
What explains Geet is what she tells Aditya while hiding from her family, that she follows her heart regardless of what would happen because she wants to make sure that whatever happens in life, she will only have herself to blame, and no one else. Geet doesn't want to live with regrets, and she also wants to take full responsibility of how her life turns out. She wants to get married to Anshumun, not roll over and accept her family's insistence that she marry Manjeet. She might not have a neat, clean way of going about things, but deep down she doesn't want anyone to bear responsibility for her life.
In fact, her loyalty to Anshumun being what drives most of her decisions is often underdiscussed imo. Even with rich famous Aditiya flirting with her, she insists to remain with Anshumun. She is a one man woman. She is willing to upturn her life and relationship with her family just to remain with Anshumun, which is what makes his harsh response to her devastating. He does not reciprocate her devotion to their relationship. He does not care as much.
But Aditya does. Aditya flirts with Roop to make light of the elopement Geet was suggesting earlier on in the movie. Aditya cares about where she has gone after nine months despite knowing she is devoted to another. Aditya does not betray Geet's secret of loving Anshumun and insists everyone ask Geet for her opinion on the marriage. Aditya cares just as much as Geet does.
Which is why they are perfect for each other. They influence and help each other grow - Geet helps Aditya soften to his mother and become more joyful, and Aditya helps Geet recover from Anshumun and think about the external consequences of her actions - and they are both devoted. At first for other people, and then to each other.
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