Sushmita Jha & Ambika Shaligram Debutant director Rahi Anil Barve and producer-actor Sohum Shah share many stories about their recently released horror-fantasy Tumbbad If a film’s baap is mainstream and ma is experimental, you get the best of both worlds, a balanced movie!”quips Rahi Anil Barve. Sohum Shah, the producer and actor of Rahi’s first feature-length movie, Tumbbad, laughs uproariously at this and adds, “This is a very good line. I am the producer and the baap, Rahi is the mother, who has come up with a fantastic, never-seen-before subject in Indian cinema.” Sohum then proceeds to tell us how he almost leapt off the seat, when he heard the script and decided to come on board almost immediately, giving a new lease of life to Tumbbad, which had been in the making since 2008. The film released this Friday, October 12. “The moment I heard the story I was all in for it because the story is very Indian and takes you back to the stories that your grandparents told you...
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