"A cinematographer is a visual psychiatrist–moving an audience through a movie [.] making them think the way you want them to think, painting pictures in t
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Early in “The Disciple,” a brilliantly composed, rigorously intelligent new movie from the Indian writer-director Chaitanya Tamhane, a young man named Sharad (Aditya Modak) sits at a table offering rare musical treasures for sale. No one takes much interest or notice. Sifting idly through the CDs on display, a potential customer says he’s never heard of any of these artists, to which Sharad replies with a true believer’s conviction: “Yes, sir, but they are as good as the famous names.” You can sense him holding back: What he’d probably like to say is that they’re possibly
A Film that Changes Your Way of Seeing The Disciple (2021)
Auteur filmmakers, as the name implies, influence all the departments of the movie so much that they get ranked as its author. Chaitanya Tamhane’s movie of
The Disciple, produced by Vivek Gomber, is the perfect auteur cinema and hands down the best Indian film of 2021 that everyone must watch.
The disciple, Sharad (Aditya Modak) has an internal conflict. His mind is a muddle due to pressure of performance, impatience of youth and idealism. A practitioner of khayal music, his contemplations continuously spoil his outward aspiration. Sharad’s external conflict is not being able to win khayal sangeet competitions. Unable to validate himself to his Guruji (Arun Dravid) or to the childhood afternoons spent with his classical music loving father.