Om-Dar-Ba-Dar
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| Directed by | Kamal Swaroop |
| Produced by | National Film Development Corporation of India (NFDC) |
| Written by | Kuku (dialogue) |
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Anita Kanwar Aditya Lakhia Gopi Desai Manish Gupta |
| Music by |
Rajat Dholakia Kuku (lyrics) |
| Cinematography | Ashwin Kaul Milind Ranade |
| Edited by | Ravi Gupta Priya Krishnaswamy |
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PVR Pictures Director's Rare |
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101 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Budget | ₹10 lakh (US$16,000) |
Om Dar-B-Dar is a 1988 Indian postmodernist film directed by Kamal Swaroop and starring Anita Kanwar, Aditya Lakhia and Gopi Desai in lead roles. The film, about the adventures of a school boy named Om along with his family, is set in Ajmer and Pushkar in Rajasthan, and employs nonlinear narrative and an absurdist storyline to satire mythology, arts, politics and philosophy. The film won the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Movie in 1989.
It was never commercially released in India, though it achieved success in International Film Festivals including Berlin where it premiered, and soon became a cult film. In 2013, National Film Development Corporation of India (NFDC) had planned an official national release of a digitally restored print of the film. The film finally released in Indian theaters after 26 years, on 17 January 2014.
Om-Dar-B-Dar is a portrait of life in Ajmer town, Rajasthan. The film tells the story of a young boy named Om in the period of his carefree adolescence and its harsh disillusions. The story starts as a comedy and ends as a thriller. Om has a rather strange family. His father, Babuji, a government employee, leaves his job so that he can dedicate himself to astrology; Om's older sister, Gayatri, is dating a good-for-nothing fellow. Om is involved in science, but is also attracted to magic and religion. In all it seems that his really outstanding skill is his ability to hold his breath for a long time.
The film was made on a budget of Rs. 10 lakhs. It had its premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1988, and was played at the film festival circuit and even became a cult film. However it was never commercially released in India, only a video release. The film received renewed attention when it was screened at Experimenta, an experimental film festival in Mumbai in 2005. Thereafter, it went into a digital restoration project funded by the National Film Development Corporation of India (NFDC). Eventually, the digitally-restored version was released on 17 January 2014, by PVR Cinemas in metro cities.
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