Venice: The story of an idealistic young Indian musician who faces a harsh reality is a transcendent, dreamy character study. Northern Indian classical music sounds like nothing other than itself: The ...
Chaitanya Tamhane’s The Disciple is an unorthodox movie about a revered artistic tradition. The journey of Sharad Nerulkar, a Hindustani classical vocalist from Mumbai, is also the mapping of the ...
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 ...