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Filmmaker Aditya Vikram Sengupta, whose latest film ‘Once Upon A Time In Calcutta’ has been selected at the prestigious Venice International Film Festival, talks about the role play by the city of joy in his films.
Chaitanya Tamhane’s The Disciple (2020) | Zoo Entertainment
On screen, Hindustani classical musicians have been mostly played as caricatures, venerable otherworldly figures in shawls or eccentric comics. Till Chaitanya Tamhane’s
The Disciple hit Netflix with a slow-burning story of an idealistic young khayal singer’s existential struggle.
Here finally was a film that spoke of the joy and terror of being an inheritor of a formidable legacy, the complexity of guru-shishya ties and the desperate fight for recognition and space. And the best part – it had a cast of real-life musicians, not actors hamming it wildly.
You would have thought the film would be greeted with whoops of joy by the fraternity but what
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