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Tumbbad is a Hindi horror-fantasy film set in 19th century India, telling the tale of one man’s quest for the hidden treasure deep under a well inside an old decrepit mansion.
As a young boy, Vinayak hears about the treasure under lord Sarkar’s mansion. His mother, a mistress of lord Sarkar, has to feed Sarkar’s elderly and grotesque grandmother nightly as she sleeps. If she wakes up, she’ll try to eat you or worse. When his brother and lord Sarkar die, his mother makes him promise to never return to Tumbbad and they leave for Pune. After growing up, he returns anyway to visit his great-grandmother, who has become an immortal monster with a tree growing out of her chest. She promises to tell him how to find the treasure if he ends her suffering.
Eventually he starts showing up in town with gold pieces and over time he becomes wealthy. He sells his gold pieces to an opium dealer and ends up traveling every so often back to Tumbbad to return with more gold. After a while his opium dealer starts getting curious and ends up going to the mansion himself to find some of the treasure. What he doesn’t know, the cursed god Hastar resides inside the womb of the goddess under the mansion to guard the treasure. Without knowing what he is doing, Hastar attacks him and he himself becomes a monster embedded in the wall of the well / womb.
Years later, Vinayak decides to teach his son Pandurang his secret of how to trick Hastar, swiping at his loincloth and picking up the coins while Hastar is distracted. His son comes up with a plan to steal the entire loincloth but that plan goes horribly wrong as the film comes to it’s terrifying climax.
A lot of stuff to digest in Tumbbad, but an epic story that's well worth it. 9 doughy dolls out of 10.
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