Indian classical musicians are likening 'The Disciple' to 'Pather Panchali' – and not in a good way
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 re...
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