Om-Dar-B-Dar
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.
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| Directed by | Kamal Swaroop |
| Written by | Kuku (dialogue) |
| Produced by | National Film Development Corporation of India (NFDC) |
| Starring | Anita Kanwar Lalit Tiwari Aditya Lakhia Gopi Desai Manish Gupta |
| Cinematography | Ashwin Kaul Milind Ranade |
| Edited by | Ravi Gupta Priya Krishnaswamy |
| Music by | Rajat Dholakia |
| Distributed by | PVR Director's Rare |
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Running time | 101 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Budget | ₹10 lakh (US$13,000) |
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.