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 tells the story of a boy named Om during his carefree adolescence and then its harsh disillusions.
Thereafter, it went into a digital restoration project funded by the National Film Development Corporation of India (NFDC).
[6] Swaroop also said that the film's script was written based solely on dreams and images that he had and claimed he "cannot think in words.
"[6] The songs by Swaroop's assistant, Kuku, are sporadic and choppy and don't make any logical sense, and are used tongue-in-cheek as mocking the tradition of spontaneous songs and musical numbers in Bollywood cinema, many of which don't do anything to move the story forward, but are instead used as an escapist "break" from the storyline.