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Chaitanya Tamhane concedes his films are easily labelled as serious or intense . It’s a fair assessment. In 2014, he made Court, an acid critique of the Indian judicial system. The film was predominantly in Marathi, had a fringed musician as its protagonist, and, to most eyes, looked and felt like a serious indie.
All of which holds true for The Disciple, Chaitanya s second feature, about a young classical singer in Mumbai. But the films are also tied together in another way. They are both darkly, wickedly funny – not an immediate descriptor you would use for his films.
May 03, 2021
Steep climb: Sharad (played by Aditya Modak) struggles to follow the implied model code of conduct for a student of Hindustani classical music an austere, uncompromising way of life - PICTURE COURTESY NETFLIC
Steep climb: Sharad (played by Aditya Modak) struggles to follow the implied model code of conduct for a student of Hindustani classical music an austere, uncompromising way of life - PICTURE COURTESY NETFLIC×
Chaitanya Tamhane does a tough balancing act in ‘The Disciple’ allowing the audience to form its own conclusions The protagonist Sharad Nerulkar in Chaitanya Tamhane’s second film rides around town at night while listening to lectures on music
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