There has been discussion regarding Tumbbad and Kantara on social media for the past several days. Kantara is nothing like Tumbbad, according to Tumbbad’s writer and producer Anand Gandhi, who tweeted this. Tumbbad was my attempt to use the horror genre as a parable against toxic masculinity and narrow-mindedness. These are celebrated in Kantara.
This tweet sparked a discussion on whether Kantara really did celebrate toxic masculinity and narrow-mindedness, as well as whether Tumbbad was superior than the Rishab Shetty film. Well, a number of online users have been making fun of Anand over this.
