 She appeared in Laawaris (1999) because she liked the subject and considered her role "substantial", which Rediff.com, in turn, described as another preachy "woman of substance", while criticising the film for its lack of originality: "working a worked-to-death formula, [the film] falls flat on its face. This was followed by the final feature she appeared in during the decade, Hum Tum Pe Marte Hain, in which she played the part of Devyani, the strict mother of a wealthy family. Subhash K. Jha called the film an" embarrassment ", critic Suparn Verma, in a scathing review, criticised Kapadia's performance, noting that she" wears a permanent scowl "throughout the film, and Bella Jaisinghani of The Indian Express, calling the film" inconsequential ", concluded her review writing that she wonders" what made Dimple Kapadia do this to herself ".
