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TUMBBAD

• Director: Rahi Anil Barve, Anand Gandhi
• INDIA / 2018 / DCP / Colour / 104’ / Indian; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Mitesh Shah, Adesh Prasad, Rahi Anil Barve, Anand Gandhi
• Director of Photography: Pankaj Kumar
• Editing: Sanyukta Kaza
• Music: Ajay-Atul, Jesper Kyd
• Cast: Sohum Shah, Harish Khannaa, Anita Date, Mohd Samad, Jyoti Malshe, Deepak Damle, Dhundiraj Prabhakar Jogaleka
• Producer: Amita Shah, Mukesh Shah, Sohum Shah
• Production Co.: Eros International, Sohum Shah Films, Colour Yellow Productions
• World Sales: Eros International

2018 Sitges Best Film, Best Cinematography
2019 CinemAsia (The Netherlands) Best Film
2019 Filmfare Awards (India) Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, Best Sound Design

Inspired by the Marathi author Narayan Dharap's story 'Aaji', Rahi Anil Barve's Tumbbad is very different from the Bollywood productions of paranormal horror. Vinayak is the illegitimate son of a local landlord, living in the decrepit, ancient village of Tumbbad. Obsessed with unearthing an ancestral treasure, he suspects that the secret lies with his great-grandmother, a cursed witch who has been trapped for centuries in a purgatory between life and death. Tricking her, he discovers the secret that will lead him to the riches, but also to a voracious, otherworldly force. The film reinvents the Hindu mythology of cursed wealth, revolving around the Goddess of Plenty and her greedy son Hastar.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.