Producer Actor Sohum Shah and his banner, Sohum Shah Films, have unveiled a collaboration with Pen Studios, led by the pillar of the Jayantilal Gada industry, for “Tumbbad 2”, the long -awaited suite of the cult horror film.
The announcement comes in the remarkable resurrection of the original box office of the 2018, with its reissue in 2024 in India, a testimony of $ 1.5 million-a testimony of the sustainable attraction of the film which transformed it from a sleeper to a masterpiece determining the genre.
“Tumbbad”, who follows the pursuit of a gourmet village boy of a cursed ancestral treasure kept by the devil, was the first Indian film to open the week of Venice Critics in 2018. The folklore horror film mixed mythology and fantasy.
Now, with “Tumbbad 2”, the manufacturers promise to deepen the universe that redefines fantastic horror in Indian cinema. The project is supported by Pen Studios, whose credits include “Sita Ramam” and the title of Berlinale “Gangubai Kathiawadi” and should start production at the start of next year.
Shah said: “I admired Jayantilal Gada Ji’s work for many years. When I met him to discuss” Tumbbad 2 “, in just five minutes, he locked the agreement. It is the kind of faith that each storyteller is that the film had really received his due.”
While the co-director Rahi Anil Barve will not come back for the future due to other commitments, Adesh Prasad, who co-directed the original “tumbbad”, is defined to direct the new episode.
The rest has been in the making, with Shah tells Variety Earlier than “The script is ready, took us six years to perfect it. We have cracked the idea with massive difficulties to ensure that it does justice to the “world” of Tumbbad.
