Deepika Bhide Bhagwat, and
Kiran Yadnyopavit, among others. If you re interested, you can watch it on Netflix now. Take a look.
Here s the Inside Look featurette for Chaitanya Tamhane s
The Disciple, direct from Netflix s YouTube:
You can also watch the original Netflix trailer for Tamhane s
The Disciplehere, to see even more footage.
If you stop striving for excellence, did you ever strive for excellence? A musician’s unadulterated devotion, a mirage-like quest for divinity, and the courage to fight your own mediocrity. The Disciple is the tale of an Indian classical vocalist, Sharad Nerulkar, searching for the traditional absolute in a contemporary city that never stops hustling.
Through this music, we are shown the path to the Divine. Netflix has unveiled the trailer for a musician drama from India titled The Disciple, which first
INDIA New England News
BY VINAYAK CHAKRAVORTY
Chaitanya Tamhane’s new film intricately weaves diverse threads. It talks of the state of Hindustani Classical music and its ‘Guru-Shishya parampara’. There is adequate reference to the blatant commercialising of music, as well as how myths are created around icons in the world of art. Importantly, in a sublime final scene, the film leaves a lingering question. What really is the mark of purity in art does it lie in rigorous learning, or is it about simplistic rendition that communicates to all with sincerity?
Tamhane’s new film, which boasts of Oscar-winner Alfonso Cuaron as an executive producer, is exceptional for the way it reiterates the value of the musical as a cinematic genre. Richly laced with remarkable classical recitals, the narrative uses its music quotient to do more than merely move the story forward. Here, music is a character in the plot.
The Disciple remains on the edge of the well of musicianship
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Chaitanya Tamhane s Marathi drama, now showing on Netflix, engulfs you in its web of paradox and irony
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Chaitanya Tamhane s Marathi drama, now showing on Netflix, engulfs you in its web of paradox and irony
Chaitanya Tamhane makes me jealous. Like the protagonist Sharad in
The Disciple, my induction into the universe of Hindustani music was one of rapture and awe at the depth of the tradition. Many years passed before I identified the surprisingly homogenous and disillusioningly pedestrian subcultures it consisted of. Tamhane latches on to one of these the Marathi Brahmin subculture of Khayal music in Mumbai and presents an astoundingly faithful representation of its textures, timbres and contradictions.