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The film won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Marathi (though it is trilingual) and the Filmfare Award for Best Cinematography. Critics praised its fearless storytelling. The Hollywood Reporter called it “a gorgeous, grotesque, and profound fable.” Variety noted its “uncompromising vision.”

: The story is rooted in a fictional myth about Hastar, the firstborn son of the Goddess of Prosperity. Cursed for his insatiable greed for gold and grain, he was banished to her "womb" (a temple in Tumbbad) and forbidden from being worshiped.

Actor-producer Sohum Shah didn't just act in Tumbbad ; he mortgaged his house to finance its completion. The team spent years building practical sets (not green screens), creating 300 kg of coins, and shooting in relentless rain for 120+ days.

Tumbbad wasn't made in a hurry. Rahi Anil Barve conceived the idea in 1997. The film took over 18 years to complete, with production beginning in 2014. The result is a visual poem set in the 1920s British Raj, revolving around a cursed village, a hidden ancestral treasure, and a monstrous, ancient god named Hastar.