I Knew Tumbbad Would Be A Success.

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Sohum Shah has been acting in films since 2010, however, he got his first big break in the film Ship of Theseus which he also produced. Since then, he’s appeared in more mainstream successes like Talvar and Simran and gave a critically lauded performance in Tumbbad. Read on…

Did you expect Tumbbad to be such a big success?

Yeah, definitely, I expected at least that much. I knew Tumbbad would be a success. We’d been making the film for six years and we believed that ‘haan, iss film mein definitely kuch naya hai’. And we wanted it to get to a wider audience and work at the box-office. So we did work with the mindset of making the film a big success.

The movie took six years to make! What challenges did you face while making this movie?

A lot of challenges. When Rahi (Anil Barve) showed me the script, main uchchal padha tha! I’d never seen a film like this before. And I wondered why no one had made something like this before and I decided to go with it. That’s when I actually realised why it hadn’t been done before - it was such an Indian, rooted tale. Daadi maa ki kahaani jaisi movie