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The chaotic ramblings of a young architect's mind take hold of his life as he leaves behind his past in India to work in Prague. In a city of beautiful architecture, a young architect is diverted toward constructions that exist within.

Dar-Badar is a human story of displacement, refuge, dreams, reality, success, failure, resilience, challenges, co-incidences and life altering experiences. Dar-Badar is a Farsi and Urdu word also used in Hindi. It literally means from 'Door to Door' and used to signify someone who has no Home, one who is roaming one place to another, hoping for a Refuge. In simple words- Homeless or Displaced. It's a story of two strangers displaced from home, who meet in a foreign city which is nobody's home. A story lived through the travelling eyes of an afghan driver displaced from his motherland and an Indian actor searching for his identity, how history, art and cinema brings them together leaving an ever lasting impact on each other before they bid good bye.

Set against the backdrop of a newly independent India, the film is about a little girl, Maya, who wants a new outfit for an upcoming dance competition. But her mother believes in only wearing Khadi (hand woven cloth), a revolution started by Gandhi and this becomes the point of conflict in a household torn between two different ideologies.