Om Dar-B-Dar

I don't think there is any "getting it" to this film. I tried watching it more carefully on my second watch, with subtitles, rewinding and pausing it to ponder but I came out the other side with only a slight more understanding of what this film is portraying. There is no rating to this. It's a piece of art. Surrealist, absurdist art. Though "Oh my Freud, Oh my fraud" would disagree with the calling it "art".

I did enjoy it more on my rewatch. The film has stellar moments of dry humor that easily escapes the viewer, who is trying to still maintain sanity till runtime of the film.

I am glad I found this piece of absurdism from Bollywood. It really does go so far against the grain that it even challenges other, more popular, postmodernist works. This becomes even more appreciable seeing it was released in 1988, where the rom-com fever was high in Bollywood. Even on an extremely tight budget, Kamal Swaroop managed to make a highly invigorating and extrapolating flick that manage to influence likes of Anurag Kashyap and Imtiaz Ali to make some of the best films of modern Bollywood.

I hope this manages to capture a more and more viewers so that Bollywood once again dares to take leaps into more experimental formats.

The movie takes you on a prolific and entertaining journey which will not make sense to in it's entire length. Only a true masterpiece of cinematic excellence can bind you throughout its totality, without making any apparent or hidden sense. Watch it and enjoy it, its probably the most "Indian" movie you will ever watch. Surreal experience of the highest quality put together and woven into what can be called a simple narrative of common people of a town. It offers everyone their share of takings whatever they can take, sarcastic will find their dark sarcasm, surrealists will discover unreal happenings, critics will find their charm and common people will find their head spun, the move has everything to offer, yet it claims of nothing. A must watch movie which clearly symbolizes the shear art of cinema making. 10/10 without a shade of doubt.

The movie is like shiny beads which are not in one thread. Hence it dose not look good. The story goes very fast in several direction instead of one. It is like beads going to different direction and loosing its value.Though the movie is new in its kind yet Beads that are not in one thread

I'll be honest, half of the movie just flowed past me in a hurry. Watching this was like sitting on a beach and watching the waves. A movie that presents you with a whirlpool of ideas and a storm of striking images, this one is a true cult item that goes beyond experimentation. In the 100 minutes, this movie packs an enormous amount of satire and possibly the highest number of genres in a single wrapper. Taking a shot at everything from surrealism to extreme realism, Kamal Swaroop presents a truly exhaustive picture of the Indian middle class in a country full of diversity, but with a style that you will not fully grasp because it is just not possible. Certain things will stand out and haunt you forever but certain others, though maybe more important, will not sink in. It is, though, once in a life viewing experience

This is not a movie. Its a dream of a person that remembers it properly.