Tumbbad is a cult classic .... How deep layers it has ... layers that run deeper than the womb of the Earth goddess (read further...) 1. Hastar has gold and stays inside earth because gold lies deep in the earth. But grains and crops grow above the soil. Hastar is forbidden to touch food as food can be shared among people and satisfy people's need. But gold creates something more than need. It creates greed. Hastar was so greedy that it had a choice to jump towards grains first. But it went for gold. A choice that became its curse. Just like in Harry Potter Voldemort chose his own death when he decided to attack baby Harry first (he had a choice between Harry Potter and Neville Longbottom) 2. Risk is always required with greed. Sarkar (the old man who fathered Vinayak) was not courageous. But Vinayak (during his childhood and after his mother dies when he is grown up) seeks monster Grandma and asks her about the treasure. His brave nature convinces her about his inherently greedy nature and hence she tells him about her secret treasure. Remember she never tells that to her own son Sarkar because Sarkar was timid. 3. Indian independence is not merely a narrative device it is a metaphor of young India (pandurang) achieving freedom from age old Colonial greed (ancestral curse of greediness that runs in Gradma, Vinayak and Pandurang). 4. When Grandma tries to eat boy Vinayak in the hut because she cannot touch grain (Hastar's curse spreads to humans too), so she needs to be fed like how Hastar needs dough dolls as offering. She cannot cook also. Thats why when Vinayak is covered with flour due to kitchen mishap, she doesn't touch him due to the spread out grain flour. She locks his ankle using chains and drags him along to her room and fixes him to the potty bed to unscrew her mouth (which is shut so that she can not bite people) to eat him directly, without touching his flour covered body. Eating Vinayak' head through potty hole is synonymous of an important reference (read on for the revelation...) Meanwhile some more metaphors... 1. Sarkar poori zindagi "dhundta raha" par use kucch nahi mila (Sarkar, the old man, tried searching all his life but couldn't find anything) Change the gender Sarkar poori zindagi "dhundti rahi" par use kucch nahi mila. (Government had searched the whole time but it didn't find anything.) Tax evasion and black money... Hidden Greed of the rich and the corrupt. 2. Baki Devon ne uspe waar karn shuru kiya. ... Poorti ke Devi ne use apni kokh mein sama liya (The gods started attacking Hastar and hence the goddess of fulfillment took him back in her womb) Explains why Hastar has a wounded blood red body. Remember that Hastar's statue is not bloody. Its actually a plump baby statue. But real Hasar is sickly and malnourished because he is starving since ages due to his curse. Bloody becuase he was attacked. 3. Hastar has gold coming out of his loincloth esp. his backside. Generally Indians kept money in the front of their loincloth in old times. So why Hastar is like that? Because it's an analogy of a diseased person who is always hungry and can eat piles of food at once but whatever the person eats is pooped out undigested (its called Bhasma Rog or a form of an untreatable disease called Bulimia Nervosa). Just like Hastar, the coins coming out of backside of his loincloth are cursed... Because its literally Hastar pooping the gold out while he eats dough dolls... He not getting any nutrition from those dolls... They instantly become gold.. Hastar gets no relief... His diarrhoea continues! If you see, in the old times, people traded grains for gold. It included people working to grow crops and then selling it in the market for money. Such transaction is termed as svarna-bhadra (auspicious gold)... But what happens in Tumbbad is simply abhadra (insidious) easy money. Remember monster Grandma trying to eat Vinayak through the potty hole? Poop has a deeper reference in Tumbbad. No wonder that poop money is insidious and Pandurang eventually rejects it! 4. Why does Hastar multiply? When gods attacked Hastar he was split into millions of particles and to save him Mother goddess took him back into her womb in his destroyed form (uncountable particles). So there are many elemental Hastars in her womb each hungry of food since ages. They appear as per the proportion of the food offered. Greed is infinite so is Hastar ... I can go on and on about Tumbbad. Tumbad surely has a potential to create a shared fictional universe of films and content. zombies, pandemic, cosmic horror, geopolitical drama... You name it and It can reach those topics if written smartly.
I'm from Pakistan. This movie was recommended to me by an Indian friend. I saw it because I could trust her taste and I wasn't disappointed. And this explanation of the movie was as beautiful as it could get. Bravo. Salutes to you. Love and respect from Pakistan.
Tumbbad is such master piece that didn't get much of appreciation, its unique, beautifully crafted movie,with such low budget and with such hard working people❤️
There's an important scene that unfortunately got deleted. It's a scene when Vinayak and his son return back home. They reach the bazaar and the freedom movement has gained more significance now. Vinayak explains about his relationship with his mother. It's such an important scene as it talks more about how the greed has become a curse for the entire family. It's the first time when we get to see an emotionally helpless side of Vinayak where we feel that he has been completely consumed with greed and now there's no going back. Also this is the scene when Vinayak and his son have a happy, friendly conversation for the first time. As always, it's feels great to watch your essays as there's a lot to learn from them. Keep up the good work buddy 👍👍
Yes, I've seen that. It's also the scene where the country's independence is reiterated and Vinayak expresses how he no longer likes ice cream since he has had enough. Thanks for watching. :)
To cut this scene was a crucial creative decision that needed to take place as otherwise,it would have given away the climax , Vinak's conscious was hinted at a few times but never fully revealed until the very end, thus,his decision to actually sacrifice himself was unexpected and compelling,the element of catharsis was evoked -- fear and pity in the minds of the viewers. It is symbolic of the fact that only when we are stripped of everything we have, do we realise what was actually important.
@@ishanichowdhury4051 exactly my thought, thanks for writing it... Otherwise most of the people, after reading OP comment, would have assumed that they did some mistake. It took them 6 years to create this masterpiece, they must have very well thought of almost all the possibilities of how to pass the message that chills down the spine of viewers.
You finally got me to watch this movie. It wasn't as scary as I thought at first. So, thank you. I feel like there is more symbolism to unpack here. I thought you would have some theories about the place where the treasure is stored. The "Goddess's womb" and the narrow tunnel leading out of it, so much like being born into the world.
Kia ora from New Zealand, This is an well written, poignantly researched and with empathetic resolve piece of work I've had to experience this year. You are doing an amazing work. Kia Kaha, Dv
Thank you for doing this deep dive. This is one of the best thriller / horror genre films to come out of India over the last decade. Also thanks for sharing your observations on rain in the movie. Totally changes how you see those scenes.
Earlier I enjoyed this movie a lot but after checking your video, now I realize how much details I missed....Thanks a lot....Lots of Love and Respect 🙏🙏
Hi - cinemawali - I am in love with your channel - the way you discuss scene break down - edit - cinematography - every character history - character thought process - background music - music - art - analysing every department of film making is just awesome - respect ✊ One request can you do scene breakdown for films - whenever possible - for example - Omkara - Maqbool - lunch box - paan Singh Tomar - slumdog millionaire - I am a Maharashtrian from Mumbai - so if possible watch marathi films on OTT - Natrang - balgandharva - astu - muramba - jogava - Astitva - shala - killa - harishchandra chi factory - 😐 Sorry for the lonnnnng list - anyway thank you so much 😊
hello mam i love your video essays .one of my favorite is kumbalanginights and could you please answer my question that is dont you get copyright claims for using movie clips
Was looking forward to this. I just watched the movie, you made me understand it. Thanks for this masterclass, looking forward to more.💯✨ If you open up classes, I will be the first to join, trust me in this ✔️🙏
I just love this channel. The fact that you are bong makes me happier. Have you watched the movie 12 Angry Men. Do you think you can do a review on that.
The initial sequence of the movie with the grandmother is inspired from the Horror Master Stephen King's short story "Gramma". en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramma_(short_story)
This explanation is very interesting and very informative but i dont think this movie have very much subtext, ofcourse its have womans discrimination, and colonial greed, but still somewhere this story have flaws i think , because to much greedy character make me feel like tumbbad world is unreal, and its characters not very much moved, or show there true characteristics, its just my opinion dont get me wrong, and thanks for the video, good work keep it up.❤️
