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Today I'll show you a horror film: "Tumbbad"
Spoiler ahead, watch out and take care
This Hindi movie opens up with a meaningful quote from the Indian philosopher, Mahatma Gandhi,
where he states: "The world has enough for everyone's need, but not for everyone's greed"
It seems like the story will revolve around this idea
Tumbbad took eight years to be completed
The people who worked behind this,
focused on details that will surely leave an impact on every viewer's heart and mind
A father tells a story to his son
First, the father introduces the goddess of prosperity,
the symbol of food and limitless gold; also, her womb is the earth
it is said that when the universe was created, she gave birth to 10 million gods;
but she only loved one: her firstborn, Hastar
But currently, you will not find his name in any recordings
The father states that it's because he was greedy for all the gold and food;
and the other gods attacked him for it
But before he could turn into dust, the goddess of prosperity saved him,
but on a condition that he'll never be worshipped, and he slept in his mother's womb for eons
But an ancestor woke him up, and built a shrine under his name
Since then, the village was cursed; and it never stopped raining
The boy asks why they have to wake him up;
and it's revealed that this is because Hastar is a boon to them
The scene flashbacks to the year 1918 in Tumbbad village, western India
It is raining so hard
We see an old person lying on the bed, who seems to be a local lord, later on, introduced as Sarkar
There's a woman giving him sexual services
Afterward, she reminds him of his promise that he'll give her the gold coin in this coming new moon;
but he states that earning it is never easy
The camera zooms in to a creepy small statue which seems to be Hastar,
who has that single gold coin in his hands
On the other hand, two kids, Vinayak and Sadashiv,
are seen waiting for their mother outside their home, even if it is raining so hard
they seem to be anxious by the thought of having to feed the old woman in their house,
their great grandmother
Vinayak instructs Sadashiv to go and do the feeding instead
Sadashiv is afraid
but before he takes another step, His mother calls him and smacks his head;
then proceeds to smack Vinayak afterward
Their mother places more food, and approaches the old woman
She gives them a warning look, so the kids step back
She carefully cuts the old woman's toenails
The kid helps their mom shave her head again; then asks if she was given an old coin
The kid receives a slap for swearing
He clarifies that they won't look after the grandmother, unless she gives them the coin
His mom says the gold coin is no joke anyway
Right then, We hear some coughs and whimpering
So the mother stands up, and tries to go to where the old woman is
We can hear her wail, "Let me go " "I don't want it", and "I don't want the treasure"
Their mother kneels to the small opening with a lamp in her other hand
she shushes the old lady without entering her room,
telling her to sleep or else Hastar will come for her
The next day, Sarkar passes away
The mother takes her children, and runs towards their house, and cooks food
She tells Vinayak that Sakar is dead;
and they'll start packing up and leave the Tumbbad village now, since nothing's left for them there
Vinayak asks why can't they inherit the mansion instead;
but the mother says that they'll still starve in there, for it's not worth anything
The son asks about the hidden treasure in the mansion;
but the mother says Sarkar was not even able to find it himself
Vinayak suggests waking the chained-up grandmother
Their mother tells him to try, and wake her up instead
The kids converse outside
but later on, Sadashiv falls off a tree and bleeds
The mother rushes during the night, in the hope to get treatment for her son;
and instructs Vinayak to feed the old woman this time,
and tells him that if she wakes up, tell her to sleep, or else Hastar will come for her
Vinayak is now all alone in that house
He lights up a lamp, as the mother weeps for Sadashiv, who dies along the way
The mother asks the driver of the cart to take her to the mansion instead
We'll see Vinayak panicking and struggling; and flour falling all over him
Vinayak hears babbles from the room where his grandmother is
He walks towards the room, and peeks under the curtain;
then finally opens the door revealing the monstrous appearance of his grandmother
Her skin seems to be peeled off, while there were huge nails on her face
She keeps babbling, and avoids the light from Vinayak's lamp
She picks up some containers in search of food
Vinayak realizes it, and rushes back to the kitchen
The audio scoring in this scene would leave chills all over your body,
because it emphasized that something would happen if the grandmother wasn't fed on time
He tries to recall how the food is prepared anxiously
but right then, chains rustling halts him
To his surprise, his great-grandmother chains him by the ankle, and drags him with her
Vinayak tries to shove her away using fire;
but she's strong enough to pull him, trying to eat him instead
Then, she steps back in fear, when Vinayak mentions Hastar's name, causing her to fall asleep
On the other hand, his mother takes the gold coin, and returns for Vinayak, crying as she picks him,
and then leaves the village by boat
During the ride, the greedy Vinayak pesters his mother
He tells her that there's still more time for them to obtain the treasure
His mother shuts her protesting son with the gold coin
but he's not satisfied with it
As the rain falls, the mother forces him to promise never to return to Tumbbad
but Vinayak seems to be persistent in searching for that treasure
Vinayak grows up independently after fifteen years
He arrives in Tumbbad before nightfall with a gasoline drum,
and enters their old house that is now full of spiderwebs and wild branches inside,
like it has become one with nature
He finds a chain that's still on his great grandmother
but then finds a dusty beating heart attached to the woods
He tries to wake up his grandmother, who spits blood afterward
He laughs maniacally when the old woman speaks
This is the part where we'll realize his true intention in coming back,
although he jokingly points out that a tree grew on her
He asks why she wasn't banished after her husband died;
and she replies by saying, it's because they needed her since she can go down the well faster
Then she warns him to never go down there, or he'll be cursed like her
Vinayak asks her where it is, and bribes her that he'll give her half if she tells him where it is;
but his grandma only wanted freedom
She asks him to burn her, for her eternal hunger can't perish, but he can make the pain go away
She says that he can choose to go back to that mansion where the treasure is located
but not everything he inherits should be claimed
Vinayak's now doing what he can, to unlock the gates of the mansion
His desperation to escape poverty gave birth to his greed
Many days pass by, and he never stops digging and clearing up his way to find the well
He fulfills the wish of his grandmother, and sets her on fire
He returns to Pune city, and finds his wife, who was actually looking for him
She tells him that she has no money left; so she starts a business of wheat
Vinayak meets up with someone whom he's indebted to,
and offers him the gold coin in order to pay it off
That man is Raghav, an opium merchant, who is now wondering where he got it from;
but Vinayak states that it is ancestral
Every time he needs money, he returns back to Tumbbad to steal the gold coins
One day, Seargent Cooper gives Raghav only a few days to come with the money, if he wants to be rich
Upon realization, Raghav visits Vinayak unexpectedly
He proposes to become his business partner; but Vinayak politely rejects it
Vinayak's wife gives birth to a son; and they are now wealthy
Soon enough, Raghav sells his daughter-in-law to Vinayak as a mistress
On the other hand, Raghav visits the mansion in Tumbbad, and Vinayak follows him
he probably knows that he wants to find the treasure himself
Vinayak goes down the well, aware that Raghav's watching
Raghavbites on the trap, and attempts to go down the well too
The blood-red mud welcomes him from below, while Vinayak creates dough dolls from above
The well resembles the inside of a womb
It is slimy and bloody
Plus, the walls and floor are breathing
The rope he used falls off, the moment he unleashes a dough doll inside a container
He hears a growl from a distance; and that growling creature attacks him in a snap
Vinayak climbs down the well, and sees the mutated Raghav conjoined to the womb's wall
He orders him to sleep, or else Hastar would come for him
Vinayak picks the doll and teases Hastar, who is desperate for the flour
In return, the god throws tantrums and mutates Raghav more
Vinayak throws the doll, as he chases and rips Hastar's loincloth
Since the god's distracted, he picks up the gold coins, that spilled out of the loincloth
Vinayak throws the lamp to Raghav to end his suffering
Fourteen years later, Vinayak still goes back and forth to Tumbbad
His son is already a grown child, named Pandurang
It seems like he's been training his kids in picking gold coins
The next day, Vinayak brings the enthusiastic Pandurang to Tumbbad
Vinayak warns him about what's ahead
They proceed to make dough dolls in preparation for training
Once they are inside the goddess's womb, he orders his son to make a circle out of flour,
because Hastar cannot go through it for those are grains
Vinayak explains it further
He also tells his son not to bring a dough doll with them earlier
but since he secretly brought one, Hastar attacks,
and almost touches Pandurang if only his father didn't catch him
They climb back up; and his angry father scolds him for not obeying his order
They return back to Pune;
and Pandurang's mother interrogates him regarding what he saw back in Tumbbad
but he refuses to spill it
Afterward, Vinayak meets with some businessmen,
who point out that he should take the opportunity to elevate his status
He finds out that the government will lock up the mansion, and build a new village in Tumbbad
Vinayak shows Pandurang his safe, and reveals all the gold there
The next day, Vinayak beats up his son, because he gifts his mistress a coin
Pandurang blurts that they should steal Hastar's loincloth instead,
an alibi for his father to stop beating him
Vinayak accepts his son's suggestion
They go back to Tumbbad, and make dolls once again
Unfortunately, there are multiple clones of Hastar, who have started crawling towards them
Indeed, they are multiple now due to the dozens of dolls they made earlier
A one-to-one ratio, perhaps
They hold onto each other, probably not expecting it
Vinayak throws each piece everywhere to distract the clones, who try to eat one,
but fights with each other, since the god himself is just too greedy
Then a clone almost falls to the flour circle, Vinayak catches his son;
and they both fall down the floor
that clone turns into dust in a blink, since it made contact with the grain
Vinayak ignites fire since the light they had earlier died
This is the part where he gets an idea that is just heartbreaking, a sacrifice as a father
There isn't much time and choice
Pandurang wakes up to his father, who had tied the remaining dolls to his body
He will use himself as the bait in order for his son to escape,
since he's also the one who took him there with him
Pandurang grabs on to his father, and tries to stop him
but his father shoves him off and takes a leap, so that the Hastar clones would go after him
Pandurang escapes the well, and manages to stand above land
After a little while, Pandurang sees his father struggle hard to approach him,
his father babbling now just like his great grandmother and Raghav
But his son sees his father's state
Vinayak presents Hastar's loincloth, in the hope of fulfilling his son's wish
Pandurang refuses and cries hard, as his father insists for him to take it
With a heavy heart, he throws his lamp at his father,
and sets him on fire in order to end his suffering
Then he finally tells his father to sleep or Hastar will come for him
Vinayak burns to death and his son leaves without taking the loincloth,
probably realizing that no amount of materialistic treasure is worth a person's life
The ending's very emotional but a fitting one
you got what you wanted, but lost what you already had
In fact, the father and son were both greedy;
and it's true that realization only hits you when time's almost up
Hastar symbolizes greed; and greed, in reality, means endlessness
Another poetic thing here is that every victim acts like a baby,
who only lives to eat and sleep as if the curse is remaining hungry, even if you had become immortal
That's it for Tumbadd I hope you enjoyed and learned a lot on this journey
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