A Tale of Greed Beyond Fear.
India, 1918. On the outskirts of Tumbbad, a cursed village where it always rains, Vinayak, along with his mother and his brother, care of a mysterious old woman who keeps the secret of an ancestral treasure that Vinayak gets obsessed with.
Sohum Shah
Vinayak Rao
Mohammad Samad
Pandurang / Grandmother
Harsh K.
Hastar
Jyoti Malshe
Vinayak's Mother
Dhundiraj Prabhakar Jogalekar
Young Vinayak
Rudra Soni
Sadashiv
Madhav Hari Joshi
Sarkar
Piyush Kaushik
Grandmother Tree
Anita Date-Kelkar
Vaidehi
Deepak Damle
Raghav
Cameron Anderson
British Officer Cooper
Ronjini Chakraborty
Vinayak's Mistress
Harish Khanna
Raja
Ratnabali Chatterjee
Grandmother (voice)
Raghubir Yadav
Grandmother (voice)
Arohi Radhakrishnan
Vinayak's Daughter #1
Anika Radhakrishnan
Vinayak's Daughter #2
Director
Rahi Anil Barve
Writers
Vishal Dadlani, Sanyukta Kaza, Shekhar Ravjiani, Rahi Anil Barve
Sanyukta Kaza
Editor
Rakesh Yadav
Production Design
Nitin Zihani Choudhary
Production Design
Pankaj Kumar
Director of Photography
Jesper Kyd
Original Music Composer
Ajay Gogavale
Original Music Composer
SWITCH.
7/26/2019
As a unique historical fantasy film coming out of India, ‘Tumbbad’ is a triumph for the filmmakers and a high-point for Hindi horror cinema. - Jake Watt Read Jake's full article... https://www.maketheswitch.com.au/article/review-tumbbad-visually-rich-hindi-horror Head to https://www.maketheswitch.com.au/revelation for more Revelation Perth International Film Festival reviews.
badelf
2/3/2022
A **very** atypical Hindi film in that it is both a fantasy and a horror. It is a well-told fable about greed. Totally worth the watch!
r96sk
4/18/2025
<em>'Tumbbad'</em> is very good folk horror fare. It's a movie that feels unusual for what Bollywood tends to offer, at least the sorta films that I've checked out from this part of the world. Aside from the evidently irremovable music interlude, it felt different - a good different. I would say that the story gets a bit underwhelming across the middle portion, though the opening chunk and final moments are impressive - both featuring young actors, in my opinion this flick is at its strongest with Dhundiraj Jogalekar and Mohammad Samad (plus Jyoti Malshe, Rudra Soni) onscreen. The special effects for when the characters are involved with Hastar aren't the greatest, but the film undoubtedly makes it work and it still adds the required creepiness. The practical effects for the 'old woman' are excellent though, very unnerving. Story-wise it is sturdy, it's fairly straightforward in terms of the message of greed but it works and is portrayed nicely. As noted, if not for a meandering middle I'd be rating this higher. All the same, it's a suitably entertaining movie and one that's worthy of recommendation.
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