Tumbbad (2018) on Netflix
NR20181h 53mDramaFantasyHorror
In Tumbbad, a village cursed with endless rain, Vinayak lives with his mother and brother Sadashiv. She is the zamindar Sarkar's mistress, and Vinayak wants the treasure Sarkar keeps hidden.
- Watch on NetflixThis title is not on Netflix right now. Please check back later for updates.
- Watch on Prime
- Watch on NordVPN
- Netflix4.2/5
- IMDb8.2/1077,526 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes87%
Trailer
Plot summary
The goddess of prosperity gave birth to Hastar, who took all her gold and then went for the grain. The other gods overpowered him, and the goddess saved his life by hiding him in her womb on the condition that he be forgotten and never worshiped. The people of Tumbbad built a temple to him, and the gods cursed the village with endless rain. In 1918, Vinayak Rao lives there with his widowed mother, the mistress of the zamindar Sarkar, and his brother Sadashiv. A chained old woman in the house knows where Sarkar's treasure lies.
Cast
- Harsh K.as Hastar
- Dhundiraj Prabhakar Jogalekaras Young Vinayak
- Madhav Hari Joshias Sarkaar
- Piyush Kaushikas Grandmother
- Deepak Damleas Raghav
- Cameron Andersonas Sgt Cooper
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Tumbbad (2018)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Tumbbad went on the floor three times and was optioned by seven production companies, all of which backed out. Director Rahi Anil Barve attributed this to his having no frame of reference for them, saying nothing like Tumbbad had been tried before.
- Nawazuddin Siddiqui was to play the lead when Tumbbad first went into production in 2008, but the film was shelved when the producer backed out. It was shot in 2012 after Sohum Shah and Anand Gandhi came on board.
- Tumbbad premiered in the critics' week section of the 75th Venice International Film Festival, becoming the first Indian film ever screened there.
- After editing the 2012 shoot, Rahi Anil Barve and Sohum Shah felt the film could not achieve what it set out to do, so it was rewritten and re-shot, with filming completed in May 2015.
- Adesh Prasad was sampling music by several composers when he heard Jesper Kyd's "Apocalypse" on the soundtrack of the 2006 video game Hitman: Blood Money, and decided to work with Kyd on Tumbbad's score.
- The demon Hastar was created with heavy prosthetic makeup by prosthetics makeup artist Gurpreet Singh Dhuri, and the application took six to seven hours to prepare.
- Tumbbad's initial runtime was close to 200 minutes, and it was edited down to 100 minutes, cutting the film's length roughly in half.
- On its re-release, Tumbbad grossed ₹26.5–26.70 crore in ten days and surpassed Ghilli to become the highest-grossing re-release film in Indian cinema.
