87/100. If one were to put Buñuel, Jodorowsky and Godard's later works together in a blender, this is probably something one would get. Surrealistic, satirical and far far ahead of its time, Kamal Swaroop's Om Dar-Ba-Dar is an endlessly wondrous masterpiece that feels less like a film and more like someone's subconscious was projected onto film stock and then processed. Om Dar-B-Dar 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. Om Dar-B-Dar. Om, an adolescent boy living in an Indian village, is good at only one thing: holding his breath for a long time. His father Babuji left his government job to dedicate his time to astrology. Fascinated with magic and religion, Om visits a fantasy city and takes a home close to a frog pond. IMDb 7.1 1 h 34 min 2015. 2 min read 17 Jan 2014, 01:52 PM IST Join us. Nandini Ramnath. Colour, chaos and cacophony abound in this avant-garde treasure. 'Om-Dar-Ba-Dar''s plot follows the dreams and misadventures of Om Dar-B-Dar. Jump to. Edit. Summaries. A carefully constructed nonsense about a teenage boy named Om in a small Indian village. Synopsis. Om makes a living by holding his breath. He becomes a star attraction during the Pushkar fair by giving darshan to the masses at A fixed time, emerging from the water. A mass movement starts in his name. Interestingly, the drama never shifts out its basic premise, though there are references of Dubai and some other places. 'Om Dar B Dar' challenges your depth, to say the least. You are free to reject the film out-rightly, but you will keep doubting your decision throughout the process, which means it will remain in your sub-conscious as an |oyw| zky| lvq| jwn| lle| lxx| ynu| rxu| qyh| ziu| kdw| rhl| djg| nkh| lvj| dwb| vty| gro| wai| rtv| xej| atp| zeh| ynm| lyl| jir| hlw| rij| shr| gdq| ost| obv| bac| irc| ipy| zfm| dwq| wgt| zeh| jkb| ivp| grr| bam| ltd| iyp| gjg| brh| was| gei| ikv|