Kamal Swaroop is one of Indian avant-garde cinema's most legendary cases. An elusive auteur of few works, most almost impossible to see - or even show. Om Dar-B-Dar had serious trouble with the officials back in the day and 'was vanished' as a consequence.
Om Dar-B-Dar (a nonsense play on words Swaroop tentatively translates as ‘I'm Door-by-Door’) is a Surrealist (anti-)narrative whose hero, Om, is good at only one thing: holding his breath for a long time - while his scientific research (well...) always seems to end up more on the magic side. His father has similar arcane interests, devoting his life to astrology - for which he left a government job. All of which sounds more straight-forward than this scathingly delirious attack on just about every holy cow India has on offer actually is.
- Director
- Kamal Swaroop
- Country of production
- India
- Year
- 1988
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2015
- Length
- 101'
- Medium
- DCP
- Language
- Hindi
- Producer
- Kamal Swaroop
- Production Company
- National Film Development Corporation India
- Sales
- National Film Development Corporation India
- Screenplay
- Kamal Swaroop
- Cinematography
- Kamal Swarop
- Editor
- Priya Krishnaswamy
- Cast
- Gopi Desai, Manish Gupta