Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, with special guest Joey Keogh, The 250 is a (mostly) weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released every Saturday at 6pm GMT.
This time, Anand Gandhi, Rahi Anil Barve and Adesh Prasad’s Tumbbad.
In a remote Indian village, something ancient and evil is lurking beneath the surface. As the country moves towards independence, Vinayak Rao finds a way to exploit the mysteries of Tumbbad to his own advantage. However, nothing comes without a price.
At time of recording, it was ranked 250th on the list of the best movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.
Show Notes:
- Recorded 7th July 2021.
- Note: Due to the COVID-19 situation, this episode was recorded remotely. We suspect, going forward that a lot of our episodes will be until the crisis resolves.
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- Allison Chinchar and Taylor Ward at CNN discuss the importance and length of India’s monsoon season, June 2021.
- Nandini Ramnath at Scroll looks at the interesting and lengthy production of Tumbbad, October 2018.
- Cinematographer Pankaj Kumar talks to Scroll about how he shot Tumbbad, October 2018.
- Editor Sanyukta Kaza talks to The Indian Express about her work editting Tumbbad and how reshoots allowed her to shape the film, June 2020.
- Sohum Shah discusses the challenges in making Tumbbad with The Times of India, October 2018.
- Lee Marchall at ScreenDaily positions Tumbbad within the emerging strain of Indian horror cinema, August 2018.
- Adesh Prasad talks to The Austin Chronicle about the challenges in trying to make (and sell) a different kind of horror in Bollywood, September 2018.
- Sankhayan Ghosh and Gayle Sequeira at The Film Companion situate Tumbbad in the evolution of modern Indian horror, August 2018.
- Den of Geek takes a look at how the success of The Conjuring changed the horror genre, October 2018.
- Rahi Anil Barve writes at Thrive Global about how he made Tumbbad, February 2019.
- Sankhayan Ghosh at The Film Companion discusses the history and the development of Tumbbad, October 2018.
- Sohum Shah talks to The International Business Times about how he was convinced to work on Tumbbad, October 2018.
- Shilpa Jamkhandikar reviews Tumbbad for Reuters, October 2018.
- Maryam Faroogui discusses the financial viability of movies like Tumbbad at Money Control, October 2018.
- Srishti Magan at Scoop Whoop discusses the initial box office and eventual success of Tumbbad, August 2020.
- Sohum Shah talks to FilmiBeat about how Tumbbad became a word of mouth hit, October 2019.
- Nick Vivarelli reports on Tumbbad premiering at Critics’ Week at the Venice Film Festival for Variety, July 2018.
- Adesh Prasad and Jesper Kyd talk to The Daily Dead about taking Tumbbad to Fantastic Fest, October 2018.
- Oliver Balch at The Guardian discusses Mahatma Gandhi’s view of capitalism, January 2013.
- Jeffrey Sachs at The National News discusses the relevance of Mahatma Gandhi to modern Indian capitalism, March 2021.
- Manas Sen Gupta attempts to position Tumbbad within the framework of Hindu theology for The Statesman, October 2018.
- GQ India offers an overview of the theological framework underpinning Tumbbad, October 2018.
- C.H. Newell at Father, Son and the Holy Gore explores Tumbbad as a criticism of capitalism, colonialism and misogyny, March 2019.
- Scott Clarke at Forbidden Room explores some of the influences on Tumbbad, June 2020.
- Jess Nevins discusses Narayan Dharap in the context of Stephen King in Horror Fiction in the 20th Century, January 2020.
- Alison Flood discusses the appeal of Stephen King’s Gramma at The Guardian, October 2012.
- Haita the Shepherd by Ambrose Bierce, January 1891.
- Kyle Anderson digs into the history of Hastur and the King in Yellow for Nerdist, January 2019.
- David Barnett at The Guardian explores the influence of Robert Chambers on True Detective, February 2014.
- Animesh Pandey at TFI Post wonders whether Tumbbad could have performed at the Academy Awards, February 2020.
- Eoin Tierney at Cassandra Voices discusses the awkward place of Article 45 in the Irish Constitution, July 2018.
- Kieran Allen at The Irish Times discusses how Irish independence failed to realise the vision of patriots like James Connolly, March 2016.
- Gitika Bhardwaj at Chatham House writes about how important social justice and fighting poverty was to Gandhi’s vision of an independent India, April 2020.
- Jesper Kyd talks to The Hindu about composing the soundtrack to Tumbbad while on a different continent, November 2019.
- Priya Srivastava at The Times of India discusses the real village of Tumbbad, December 2020.
- The Statesman digs into the real history of the village of Tumbbad, October 2018.
- Channel 4 asks British people to draw the border with Northern Ireland, November 2017.
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