Movie Review: Tumbbad
A gripping tale where horror is the demon inside all of us
If a horror movie was playing in the house, you wouldn’t find me watching it.
I have never been a fan of horror cinema. Primarily because, a mix of uncertainty and fright would not allow me to enjoy the script or the acting encompassing such films. I would be closing my ears and eyes, as soon as the door creaked or an actor deliberately went inside the haunted house. Of course something bad would happen and the actor would end up dying at the hands of an unnatural menacing force.
Tumbadd, on the other hand, is unlike most horror films.
Instead of making the plot unnaturally sinister, the movie introduces the audience to a natural element as the driving force behind it. The energy is godly as it is humanly. A prevalent feature of our minds and choices, depicting the hollowness in our materialistic obsessions. That characteristic is, greed. The two main leads, Vinayak Rao and Hastar, are metaphors for what awaits at the end of such avarice.
And that is why Tumbbad, as a cinematic experience stands out. The onerous village, Tumbbad, dotted by the loneliness of its structures eludes mystery and malice. The curse of gods, in the form of perpetual rain, depicts a sense of pall constantly looming over the landscape.
