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Masterpiece movie of India . Totally different concept. I love it.

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A movie is a creation which takes you to new levels of imagination . Tumbaad exactly creates horrifying the same. It is a masterpiece & a cult cinema to take you to another level of horrors. when bollywood is busy is remaking & so called inspiration from others, really this creativity makes us to feel exiting !

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Excellent visuals, acting, lesson (at the absolute end).<br/>Start of the movie was excellent and had loaddsss and loaddsss of potential. But once the shifting to pune was done, from that point on it was a straight up trash movie. It wasn't even horror or thriller. It was an 18 erotica film that failed to serve anything worthwhile even at that. The only reason watched through it all was cuz I was hoping that the potential displayed at the start would be tapped in again. <br/>Overall I absolutely felt like a waste of time having watched it amd wouldn't recommend it to anyone. <br/>I can literally randomly select any other horror movie and it will definitely be way better than this hot garbage.

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A man and his son encounter a legendary demon while searching for hidden treasure in 19th-century India.

Genre: Horror, Fantasy

Original Language: Hindi

Director: Rahi Anil Barve , Adesh Prasad

Producer: Amita Shah , Mukesh Shah , Sohum Shah

Writer: Adesh Prasad , Rahi Anil Barve , Mitesh Shah , Anand Gandhi

Release Date (Theaters): Oct 12, 2018  limited

Release Date (Streaming): Jan 16, 2019

Runtime: 1h 44m

Distributor: Eros International

Production Co: Film i Väst, Filmgate Films

Sound Mix: Dolby Atmos

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Tumbbad movie review: A visually rich story of greed and gold

Tumbbad movie review: director rahi anil barve’s first feature is more of a visual feast than a narrative achievement..

The rain never stops in the town of Tumbbad. It is an accursed land because it holds a temple to an accursed god — a god so wretched that his name must not be spoken — and yet this god holds gold, which is why the temple exists, and why this curse is wilfully borne by the greedy as they brave the un-drought and seek damned riches.

Directed by Rahi Anil Barve and shot by the incredible Pankaj Kumar, Tumbbad is a visually startling film that seeks to surprise instead of scare. It plays out like a Panchatantra tale narrated by a drunk and inappropriate uncle, a story that has a very simple moral core — this one is about golden eggs and golden geese — but has bits that get under the skin. This is not a horror movie, nor does it create a particularly substantial myth, but the little gothic details are delicious.

I fell in love with the locks. Gates in the town of Tumbbad are closed with these intricate dungeon-style locks, great big devices with jagged bear-trap edges, locks that look like they could kill you if you opened them wrong. We see the fortress through a timelapse sequence that remains exclusively, oppressively overcast, rain bouncing off the forbidding front-facing spikes of the gate, like an iron maiden left ajar.

It is a world few would brave. Barve’s first feature is an ambitious one, artistic and attentively made, reminding me of the trippystylings of filmmaker Tarsem Singh. Singh always gave us something to gape at, and Barve pulls off tremendous visual flourishes. The earth at the temple’s core is scarlet and has the texture of a melting candle, a superb contrast to the gleaming gold coins. The vermillion villain looks like the nightmarish Rascar Capac from the Tintin story The Seven Crystal Balls. The atmospherics are laid on so thick I wish the film didn’t have a background score.

The film often feels like overkill, trying too hard to captivate us when we’re already intrigued. Tragically, the characters are less imaginative than the images. Based on the stories of Marathi horror writer Narayan Dharap — the title coming from Shripad Narayan Pendse’s novel Tumbadche Khot — Tumbbad is the story of a boy who grows up obsessed with the temple’s treasure. As he grows up, he finds a way to get it, coin by coin, lowering himself deeper into the forbidden abyss as he, like a storyteller, mines the myth.

Set from 1913 to 1947, the period detailing is authentic as well as fanciful. There are boys with tikis, a grotesque old woman who looks like an outtake from Mad Max: Fury Road, and a ponytailed moneylender who has a sign on his door that requests the visitor to ring the bell only once because the inhabitants are not deaf. The protagonist Vinayak, played by an impressive Sohum Shah, smiles at this and promptly rings it twice.

The story becomes exasperatingly concentric, as Vinayak gets addicted to narrow escapes and keeps going back to the temple for more. The film thus finds itself in a loop as we see it play out for over thirty years, a short story told by a longform narrator. I marvelled at things, but also yawned.

Remember the scene in the classic comedy Pyaar Kiye Jaa where Mahmood narrates a horror film to Om Prakash? The story wasn’t much but the sound effects were spectacular. Tumbbad is a bit like that — which really isn’t a bad thing. Barve is a director with vision and a voice, and his film will undoubtedly spawn a cult of admirers. And, ideally, imitators. If there’s one thing Tumbbad has to say, it is that all gods need believers.

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Why Sohum Shah’s Tumbbad Is Termed One Of The Best Horror Films In Indian Cinema

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The film released in the year 2018.

Tumbbad is a unique combination of horror and fantasy, based upon folklore.

Horror is a genre which is yet to get its due in India. The Indian film industry has tried to make quality horror films for decades. Some of them have lived up to the cinegoes’ expectations, while most have not. Did you know there’s one horror film which is considered as one of the finest in India? The film, which falls under the fantasy horror genre to be precise, is an experimental one with no big stars. That could be the reason why not many people are aware of this movie. The film did get recognition, awards and critical acclaim, but couldn’t get any box office numbers. Wondering which film we are talking about? It’s none other than the Rahi Anil Barve and Anand Gandhi-directorial Tumbbad. Today, let’s get to know more about this film.

Tumbbad is a unique combination of horror and fantasy, based around folklore. The film’s protagonist is actor Sohum Shah. He plays a man named Vinayak, who is unabashedly greedy yet brave. The story is set in the 1900s. Vinayak returns to his ancestral village after a couple of decades. His motive? To find a treasure that’s hidden in an eerie old fort.

What sets the films apart is its captivating cinematography. Each and every frame of this film has been perfectly crafted. The film’s location and sets add to its mysterious atmosphere. Tumbbad’s story is also unique. It’s more than just a horror film with jump scares. Instead, it focuses on human nature, societies, casteist norms and much more. Sohum Shah stood out as Vinayak. His credible performance breathed life into the film.

Tumbbad released theatrically on October 12, 2018. The making of Tumbbad took 5 years. The film had to face financial difficulties. In an interview last year, Sohum Shah revealed how he faced immense financial struggle while making this film. He even revealed that he had to sell his flat and properties to finance the film. “I heard that when Raj Kapoor was making films, he too had to sell his house,” Sohum Shah said. He also added that making a film is like raising a child.

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Tumbbad movie review: A fey, beautiful and dark masterpiece

Director: Rahi Anil Barve

Cast: Sohum Shah, Mohammad Samad, Anita Date and others.

Tumbbad opens with Mahatma Gandhi's famous saying, ''There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed". Based on the story by Narayan Dharap, this supernatural thriller takes the audience on an exhilarating ride with a fascinating tale of grim morality. Director Rahi Anil Barve has crafted a film reminiscent of the traditional stories which are beguiling yet simultaneously frightening.

Penned by Mitesh Shah, Adesh Prasad, Rahi Anil Barve and Anand Gandhi (Ship of Theseus), the film begins in a village called 'Tumbbad' where it rains incessantly. A widowed mother lives with her two sons. The family leads a life of misery due to the great-grandmother of the family, who is believed to be cursed by Hastar - a mythical creature disgraced for his insatiable greed for wealth and food. Vinayak Rao, one of the young boys, is obsessed with discovering the whereabouts of Hastar’s buried treasure in 'Wada' (family mansion). 15 years later, now grown-up Vinayak (Sohum Shah) returns to Tumbbad in the quest for gold. Will he succeed?

Tumbbad is a movie with a simple and straightforward plot which contains layers and layers of intelligent writing, metaphors and message. The story is a compelling and deeply involving one, and the film is beautiful, exciting, and sometimes horrifying. One of the fundamental rules of any good supernatural tale is that, no matter how fantastical it becomes, it must make sure to keep one foot firmly planted in reality so that the story can easily connect with the audience. In the case of Tumbbad, that foot is so firmly planted that it prevents the film from cutting loose and thus leaves the audience amazed and scared. This film is miles above the average Indian fantasy-horror film in terms of both sophistication and vision. Director Rahi Anil Barve has fashioned a dark, violent, exquisitely realised world filled with strangeness. The result is wildly creative film that engages both heart and mind in equal measure.

The acting is all excellent especially from Sohum Shah who gets the multiple nuances of his character correct and gives an enthralling performance as Vinayak. The supporting cast is well formed, seems suited and does their work with all the conviction. But the story and the exceptional fluidity with which the camera and sound tell it are the real stars here. The stunning production design by Nitin Zihani Choudhary and Rakesh Yadav, Pankaj Kumar's impeccable cinematography and Jesper Kyd's terrific background score are some of the crucial factors to make Tumbbad what it is. The film neatly puts its technical richness on display to create a tense, eerie and melancholic feel to give us a true atmospheric horror.

There are no wasteful scenes in this film but there are some really gruesome and disturbing ones. This film is violent, but not in the futile, obnoxious way. It is violent in a realistic manner that counter-balances the fantasy portion of the story in a non-gratuitous way. All these violent scenes are entirely appropriate to the telling of the story, although many of them are difficult to watch.

For all its good points, Tumbbad winds up disappointing us a bit in the end. Once you get familiar with the set-up, the film gets a bit slow in the second half which draws our attention to certain unexplained things. For much of its running time, it creates a lot of questions and barring few it leaves us flabbergasted without answering most of them. But that’s not necessarily a stumbling rock here as Tumbbad is smart enough to do so intentionally, and perhaps it’s that mystical nature which will make this film linger in your memory for very long.

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A visually rich story of greed and gold.

Tumbbad is a bit like that - which really isn't a bad thing. Barve is a director with vision and a voice, and his film will undoubtedly spawn a cult of admirers. And, ideally, imitators. If there's one thing Tumbbad has to say, it is that all gods need believers. (more)

Source: Raja Sen., Hindustan Times

A gorgeous looking, intriguing morality tale

Debutant director Rahi Anil Barve has a distinct voice. Tumbbad is a gorgeous looking, intriguing morality tale which both entrances and repulses: it's not something I will forget. (more)

Source: Shubhra Gupta, Indian Express

A psychological horror film with strong visuals and metaphors.

umbbad is a moody and atmospheric film. Some viewers may find the film a little too deep and disturbing, but fans of Hollywood horror films will be reminded of memorable movies in the genre like Pan's Labyrinth (2006) and Eraserhead (1977). This one is genuinely scary. (more)

Source: Rachit Gupta, Times Of India

A fairytale for grown ups

The parable of Tumbbad is out to de-humanise Vinayak Rao, but Sohum Shah preserves his humanity. The film is straight Church Work. But Shah keeps even his curses close to prayers. (more)

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TUMBBAD rests on a unique concept but the disjointed narrative spoils the show.

TUMBBAD's first few minutes should not be missed at any cost. The entire legend of the village and Hastar is explained here and missing this bit would prove detrimental. The film is divided into three chapters. The first chapter, involving Vinayak�s childhood, is disturbing and needlessly gory. It doesn't really engage well. The second chapter is slightly better, though a lot is still left to be desired. The intermission point is well shot and it's from the second half that the film begins to get clearer. The scene in the womb immediately after the commencement of the second half leaves a mark. The third chapter has interesting developments, especially in the finale. But the way the makers don�t answer certain questions again hampers the impact. (more)

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Ship of Theseus team redefines horror with this genre-defying folksy fantasy flick

Tumbbad comes from the fact that Barve and his co-writers offer no answers, making this a delightfully intriguing film. (more)

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Never Knew Fear Could Look So Beautiful!

Tumbbad is one magnificent looking film. A dark fusion of horror, fantasy, drama and thriller - the story of Tumbbad is surely to haunt your thoughts even after you leave the cinema hall. A treat for the lovers of this genre. (more)

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Tumbbad movie review: A gorgeous looking, intriguing morality tale

Tumbbad movie review: debutant director rahi anil barve has a distinct voice. tumbbad is a gorgeous looking, intriguing morality tale which both entrances and repulses: it’s not something i will forget..

Tumbbad movie cast: Sohum Shah, Mohammad Samad, Anita Date, Deepak Damle, Jyoti Malshe Tumbbad movie director: Rahi Anil Barve Tumbbad movie rating: Three and a half stars

An ancient myth. A hideous demon. Hidden treasure. Human greed. This potent mix is stirred and ground in Tumbbad, and the result is a highly unusual, visually stunning, richly atmospheric concoction of genres and themes: horror, fantasy, social, period. I also found echoes of folk-tales, not your cosy happy-ever after kinds, but the ones that leave you distinctly uneasy. Remember the one with the gingerbread man with his button eyes? He’s always given me the shivers. Tumbbad, which features a variation made out of flour, an ‘aate ki gudiya’ which fulfills a singular purpose, does too.

The film, which has an imprint of a short story by folklorist Narayan Dharap, opens in the early 1900s, and goes on till just past Independence. Tumbbad, a village in Maharashtra , is home to a young widow ( Malshe) with two sons. She takes care of an old man, a mysterious older woman who needs chaining, and a precious metal object. A tragedy forces the family to leave the village and re-locate to Poona, but the older boy never forgets the stories he has heard, and keeps returning to his eternally doomed village, in search of the treasure.

At one level, you can see Tumbbad as a film about insatiable greed and the consequences thereof. At another, it digs, literally and metaphorically, deeper: are humans ever satisfied; is enough ever enough? Greed, it shows us, turns men into monsters. That is true horror.

The two-faced Januses some humans can be seen in Vinayak (Shah). He is a complex creature, showing that he does care for his ‘aai’ (mother), but he cares equally if not more about money, and the things it can buy. Shah plays him with complete conviction, showing us his weary life-long struggle with want and need. Equally arresting is Samad as is his son, the apple which hasn’t fallen far from the tree, in the way his eyes light up with lust and greed.

I’m routinely petrified in horror films, and to begin with, when Tumbbad shows us a dark corridor, and a creature who may have been there for centuries (‘budhiya’, she is called, but how many centuries she’s been buried under dirt, and dust, and putrid soars is left to our imagination), I confess I did close my eyes.

The tropes are standard– darkness, the play of light and shadow, strange noises off, and the hideous monster– but lensed with enough painterly craft that they are lifted. After a point though, the guttural utterances of the creature become too much, and the film becomes a bit too muddled for its own good.

The film becomes more interesting when the grown Vinayak starts building a love-hate relationship with his doomed, permanently rain-soaked village. He is a man increasingly intoxicated by wealth; he likes earthly pleasures (witness the two women in his life; the wide-eyed wife, and the lush mistress) as much as he likes lowering himself below the surface to acquire that wealth, with a skill only he knows.

The period is beautifully re-created, each element in its place without exaggeration, especially in the glimpses of Poona society of the time: how Brahmin men like Vinayak and his rotund partner-in-crime (Damle) rule the world, and how women exist to serve their needs. By the time his own son, who has a fault in his foot but none whatsoever in his brains, comes into his own, the British overlords are on their way out, leaving behind a torn and bloody country, and the film heads towards a climax which makes up for its unsatisfactory passages.

By the time it ends, you feel like you’ve seen something of scale, something both lofty and grand, as well as curdled and frightening. Clearly, debutant director Barve has a distinct voice. Tumbbad is a gorgeous looking, intriguing morality tale which both entrances and repulses: it’s not something I will forget.

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Masterpiece movie of India . Totally different concept. I love it.

Anand Bhosale 534 days ago

A movie is a creation which takes you to new levels of imagination . Tumbaad exactly creates horrifying the same. It is a masterpiece &amp; a cult cinema to take you to another level of horrors. when bollywood is busy is remaking &amp; so called inspiration from others, really this creativity makes us to feel exiting !

kshitizon 629 days ago

Excellent visuals, acting, lesson (at the absolute end).<br/>Start of the movie was excellent and had loaddsss and loaddsss of potential. But once the shifting to pune was done, from that point on it was a straight up trash movie. It wasn't even horror or thriller. It was an 18 erotica film that failed to serve anything worthwhile even at that. The only reason watched through it all was cuz I was hoping that the potential displayed at the start would be tapped in again. <br/>Overall I absolutely felt like a waste of time having watched it amd wouldn't recommend it to anyone. <br/>I can literally randomly select any other horror movie and it will definitely be way better than this hot garbage.

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Human fears are universal , but the expression of those fears is different in every culture — which can be a lot of fun for horror fans. There comes a point where being too steeped in your own culture’s horror stories can undercut the feelings of unfamiliarity and surprise that the genre depends on. Looking to another country for culturally specific fresh takes on scary tropes — like Japan’s Ringu , Spain’s The Orphanage , Iceland’s Lamb , or Taiwan’s Incantation — lets horror fans encounter familiar shocks dressed up in vivid new ways capable of digging under even the most jaded skin. Along the way, they can also learn fascinating things about how many different ways there are to shape and share the same fears.

That’s one of the great joys of Tumbbad , Rahi Anil Barve’s stunning 2018 Hindi-language horror story about gods, greed, and gore. The raw bones of this movie are familiar enough: man gives into his vices, man faces a supernatural accounting. But the specific shape that story takes, and the imagery used to lay it out, will be unfamiliar to Western audiences. And the graphic, chilling details hit particularly hard because they’re so unexpected. It’s a superb Halloween-season discovery.

India has a long but relatively narrow history with horror movies , and Tumbbad was a hit on release there, likely because it’s so eerie, insistent, and streamlined, and yet so quintessentially an Indian story, rooted in the country’s history and its specific traumas. The story’s three chapters each have different major secrets and discoveries, and they each have a slightly different flavor of horror.

The first is a simple bump-in-the-night fable, packed with sudden shocks and gruesome practical effects. The second feels far more Lovecraftian, with a protagonist knowingly infecting himself with terrible knowledge and accepting the effect on his psyche. It helps that the story centers around a forbidden, lost god named Hastar, a name that doesn’t actually come from Indian mythology , but will certainly be familiar to fans of H.P. Lovecraft and his followers , even if he’s been reskinned. And the third chapter builds perfectly on the intense shocks of the first two, with one of the most shudder-inducing reveals modern horror has to offer. Even so, it’s more about creeping dread and inevitability than about jump-scares or graphic violence.

In the first — set in 1918, against the background of Mahatma Gandhi’s early rebellions against British rule — young brothers Vinayak and Sadashiv Rao chafe against poverty in the rural town of Tumbbad. They live in the shadow of a vast, decaying mansion owned by a decrepit hermit named Sarkar, who’s secretly their father. But he’s never acknowledged them, or his connection with their mother (Jyoti Malshe), who’s been his servant and mistress for decades.

Sarkar’s mansion supposedly holds a hidden family fortune. Vinayak in particular feels entitled to a share of the money, which represents not only an escape from his family’s hand-to-mouth life, but the respect and pride of place he longs for as a rich man’s son. Instead, his inheritance is a mysterious obligation to a monstrous old woman who’s chained up in his home, in his mother’s care. The family speaks about her with dread and awe, the way they’d speak about a boogeyman who needs to be propitiated — and as it turns out, with good reason.

The second chapter opens 15 years later, during a tumultuous time for the British Raj. Now an adult (and played by Bollywood producer Sohum Shah), Vinayak returns to Tumbbad, seeking the fortune he never found as a child — and the old, chained woman, who he sees differently as an adult. Soon afterward, he returns to his wife in the vast, sprawling city of Pune, and he brings mysterious gold coins with him. Looking to sell the coins, he enters into an ill-fated deal with Raghav (Deepak Damle), a friend, moneylender, and merchant who’s hoping to bribe his way into a profitable opium-dealing license. Both men are driven by greed and a desire to better their positions, and both of them suffer for it.

The final chapter begins in 1947, shortly after Partition , which has rocked India, but barely touched Vinayak and his family. Vinayak is aging at this point, and has to decide what to pass on to the young son who worships him and constantly strains to please him. Vinayak is reluctant to part with the family secret, but as always, his greed makes it impossible to discard the idea entirely. All of which leaves Tumbbad sprawling across three generations — and by implication, many, many more. The open question writer-director Rahi Anil Barve asks — the question he started exploring in 1997, when he wrote his first draft of the film at age 18 — is what it takes to stop the cycle of avarice that destroys families and countries with equal alacrity.

All three chapters work together neatly as a kind of dark fairy tale about greed — where it comes from, how it perpetuates itself, and how it can act like a drug, overwhelming the senses and getting its victims addicted. Shah plays Vinayak as a contemptuous, abusive man who mostly thinks about his own petty pleasures and expects everyone to serve him. He’s cruel and selfish, as much the villain of the piece as the dark god his family serves.

But Barve and his team suggest some sympathy for him, too, given where he came from. The fable that opens the film says the gods cursed Tumbbad because of Vinayak’s family, and that the perpetual rains engulfing the place are a form of divine wrath. Those storms figure prominently in Barve’s sharp, lurid imagery throughout the film: Whether visiting the Tumbbad mansion or huddling in their own hovel, Vinayak and his mother and brother are perpetually soaked to the skin and plastered in mud. (Barve says he shot the film over the course of several years during monsoon season, to get the right atmosphere.) The family doesn’t comment on the rain, because it’s the perpetual backdrop of their lives, but they all look chilled, diluted, and on the verge of washing away entirely. It’s entirely clear why Vinayak dreams of escape, and the wealth to live however he wants.

But Tumbbad lays out a rich metaphor for the ways those dreams leech most of the freedom and happiness out of Vinayak’s life, leaving him in a perpetual nightmare where he dwells on the cost of his wealth, and resents everyone around him who shares in it without paying the price he pays. He can’t let go of his riches, but he can’t fully enjoy them either, which leads him to worse and worse excesses. Crucial history is happening all around him, and his country is suffering, changing, and strengthening, but he’s insulated and isolated himself by focusing only on his own gain. It’s a beautifully crafted trap, built into the heart of an equally beautifully crafted story, where the supernatural horrors are outright terrifying, but Vinayak is far scarier.

Barve makes sure that all of this hits home by presenting it with a visual richness and lushness that will keep his viewers’ eyes pinned on the screen. He shot in real abandoned rural locations to give the Tumbbad setting its lonely but stately texture, and wherever possible, he relies on practical effects to give it weight. When CGI does feature, especially in the film’s explosive climax, it’s deliberately contrasted with physical effects to make the action more uncanny and disturbing, rather than trying to blend in with the rest of his world.

The colors in Tumbbad are unbeatable, particularly the ghastly, raw reds that define Vinayak’s secret and its price. And the imagery is equally vivid, leading to unforgettable moments that even longtime horror fans won’t have seen on screen before. All horror is meant to take audiences out of their comfort zones, and let them feel threatened by the unknown and unfamiliar. Tumbbad , with its reliance on the flavor of Indian myth and the shape of Indian history, just takes them further than most horror stories. In the process, it leads into stranger, darker, and more exultant places.

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