Kumbhakarna

The story

War has reached the gates of Lanka. Its greatest warriors are falling, its people are mourning, and its king refuses to surrender the woman whose abduction has brought destruction upon his kingdom. With his options disappearing, Ravana orders his sleeping brother to be awakened.

Kumbhakarna rises to find a world transformed. Vibhishana has joined Rama, the palace is filled with wounded soldiers, and behind Ravana’s royal grandeur he recognises fear. As memories reveal the bond that shaped the brothers, he condemns Ravana’s arrogance and the suffering his actions have caused.

But Ravana appeals to the one loyalty he believes cannot be broken—the love of his younger brother. Kumbhakarna must choose between refusing a war he knows is wrong and standing beside the brother he cannot bear to abandon.

Told through his final awakening and memories of the brothers’ shared past, Kumbhakarna — The Last Awakening explores the tenderness and terror within a legendary warrior, and the moment devotion becomes complicity.