T U M B B A D Written by Mitesh Shah Adesh Prasad Rahi Anil Barve Anand Gandhi Edited by: Sanyukta Kaza Email:
[email protected] -Preface- Tumbbad's script has been drafted over many years. There was an early draft by Rahi Anil Barve filled with exciting ideas, when it was pitched to us. The script evolved further when Mitesh Shah and Anand Gandhi joined as writers before we went to shoot it the first time. After editing this footage we thought we could do much more with the given premise and hence, we decided to re-write it further, adding Adesh Prasad to the team of writers. The writing carried on even through the arduous process of shooting as the writers continuously negotiated with the rising ambitions and dwindling money, trying to find the best solutions on the floor, and on the fly. But, this version of the film turned out to be close to a four hour long cut which followed the script, but did not work as well as we had hoped. In many ways it can be said that the actual final writing of the film began only on the editing table. The editor, Sanyukta Kaza, re-structured the story, filled in the narrative gaps by creating montages from what were supposed to be elaborate scenes giving a new lease of life and meaning to Tumbbad, blurring the lines between editing and writing. There are several scenes in the film that were re-written on the table using the existing footage, but edited and dubbed in a way that you can't tell that the actual spoken dialogues were different.