SYNOPSIS - Do Dooni Chaar
When was the last time you saw something - on a window display, on Amazon.com, in the flight magazine – and told yourself, "Someday, I'll buy that!"? Santosh Duggal fights that battle almost every day! His animated family's needs far surpass his paycheck. Yet, they are happily managing. But, when Duggal is busy counting the notes on the first of every month, his wife Kusum doesn't miss the freshly painted neighbor's walls for Diwali, Payal steals a glance at Farooqui Uncle's car and Deepu gapes at the new iPod his friend flaunted.
Until, one day, arrives Phupho, Duggal's 'little' sister from Meerut. She is here to invite them to a wedding at her in-laws and give them an ultimatum: They have to come by a car. The only problem is that the Duggals don't own a car! Phupho's solution?
"Khareed lo!" .There is too much of Phupho's pride at stake to reconsider going to the wedding. So the Duggals gear up for their first big purchase in years.
Santosh Duggal panics and the family secretly high-fives one another. The piggy banks are emptied. The PF is encashed. A loan is applied for. Long forms are filled. New hiding places in the house are found, where everyone discreetly kept their savings. But the real battlelines are drawn within the house.
The four of them can't seem to agree on anything - the car, the make, the color.. Like Payal says, "Hamaare ghar par discussions aise hi hote hai!" A mad journey of chaos, realizations, calculations, confrontations and bonding follows. After putting together all their resources, there is one big hole that remains to be filled. And then comes a gigantic lurking temptation. An easy way out? Will they take it? Do Dooni Chaar will bring back to your minds the memories of your own family's story. It is the story of the middleclass man and his tireless endeavor in coping with the fast, new 'India Shining'. It's funny, real and heart warming. We all have our own scooter-to-car tales. We are all our own Duggal. Do Dooni Chaar makes us see the Duggal in us with the rare chance to laugh at ourselves.
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