Do Dooni Charr

Melwood Screening Room: May 9 @ 8:30PM & May 14 @ 1:30PM

Passes not accepted on Opening/Closing Night. Please arrive at least 15 minutes ahead of start time to ensure availability of seating. Film schedule and Q & A's are subject to change.

2010/India/Director: Habib Faisal/120 min
Cast: Rishi Kapoor, Neetu Singh, Archit Krishna, Aditi Vasudev, Akhilendra Mishra
Disney’s first foray into Bollywood brings together legendary screen team of Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Singh again for this delightful slice of life tale.
The Duggals are an eccentric and loving, but economically challenged, middle class Dehli family. Father Santosh, (Kapoor) manages to provide a comfortable- if not luxurious- life for his family on his paltry schoolteacher salary. Long resigned to live simply, the Duggals are at once presented with material possibilities and temptations never before imagined.
The Duggals comedic maneuverings escalate into the absurd as each member scrambles to achieve acquire a certain dream. The Duggals teenaged children Sandip (Archit Krishna) and Payal (Aditi Vasudev) yearn for the gadgets and swag they see around them. Enter Santosh’s pretentious sister, Urmi, (Supriya Shukla). Once content to travel by scooter, Urmi insists that her brother’s family keeps up appearances at a family wedding by arriving by car or not at all. This taste of an upper middle class existence is the catalyst for the Duggals unfortunate shift in priorities away family and relationships.
Each member is capable of crossing a certain ethical line to acquire “things”. Do Dooni Chaar is a breath of fresh air from beginning to end and is never bleak nor mean-spirited. Believable dialogue and performances are turned in by the entire cast.
Do Dooni Chaar, often hilarious and always heartwarming, is a gentle satire of consumerism and materialistic values that pervade much of modern India today.