Rahi Anil Barve won the Best Film Award at the Mumbai International Film Festival in 2008 with his first short film Manjha, later chosen by acclaimed director Danny Boyle as a special feature for the BluRay release of his Academy Award winning film Slumdog Millionaire. Tumbbad is his debut feature film. Adesh Prasad, after editing Ship of Theseus by Anand Gandhi, joined the team of Tumbbad as co-producer, co-writer and co-director. He is currently writing his next feature while developing future projects for Little Town Films, including a sequel to Tumbbad. He runs Little Town Films along with Sohum Shah, and serves as producer and creative head of the company.