While Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Kapoor display adorable chemistry and bring in all their charm to this well-meaning, honest story, Do Dooni Chaar remains, inherently, sad. Middle-class frustrations don't make for happy movies nowadays. Especially if you're going to be describing every tiny bit of familial angst over the process of owning a possession beyond the family's limited means.
Where are all the "winner" stories where limitations were confined to a little black box in the beginning of the movie, outlined in broad strokes, and where the process of accomplishment was described in ....