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Om Dar-B-Dar Dvd

Fascinated with magic and religion, young Om visits a fantasy city and takes a home at the bottom of a frog pond.

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Om Dar-B-Dar (Hindi: ओम-दर-ब-दर) is a 1988 Indian Hindi-language postmodernist film directed by Kamal Swaroop and starring Anita Kanwar, Aditya Lakhia and Gopi Desai. 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 story line to satirise 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 it 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.

Synopsis

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.

Cast

Anita Kanwar as Phoolkumari
Gopi Desai as Gayatri
Lalit Tiwari as Jagdish
Bhairavchandra Sharma
Lakshminarayan Shastri as Om’s Father
Ramesh Mathur
Aditya Lakhia as Om
Manish Gupta as young Om
Peter Morris Messe

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