This is a Hindi film (IMDB link) starring Soham Shah.
By the end of Tumbbad, you get the message forced upon is that greed has no end, and will lead to a bad end. But ironically, even that message is thrust upon the viewer behind an act of selfless sacrifice, by a father to save his child.
You almost feel the child should have taken Hastar's garment to make his father's sacrifice worth it.
And this is the core problem behind Tumbbad. By showing the luxurious life led by the protagonist, and the excellent execution of the whole film (including the element of horror, myth and pre/post independence society), one keeps missing that the message is "no guts, no glory". I wish they had probed further into the angle of "he doesn't feel happiness in anything despite having it all". That would have been bang on to the purpose of the film!
I rated it 8/10 in IMDB.
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