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  Review by rahul ranjan ★★★★½ 4

  87/100

  The worst feeling in one's life is to realise that what you love the most doesn't love you back.

  Chaitnya Tamhane's sophomore feature follows the lifelong quest of Sharad Nerulkar who's seeking admiration and enlightenment in an arcane art form.
  What separates Sharad from any other 'up and coming artist' protagonists is that he's the side hero of his own film, he doesn't control his narrative instead he's controlled by them.

  He's not talented enough as he'd like to, he's not focussed enough as he should be, he's just a delusioned disciple who isn't able to identify that weather his capabilities lies where his devotion is.

  This gave me a strong epiphany as an aspiring filmmaker that I'm also…

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  Review by Giacomo Pozzi 5

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  Review by Vishwas Verma ★★½ 9

  I found it very boring. I am sorry.

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  Review by Matt Neglia ★★★★

  As soothing as the classical Indian music that gives the film its meditative soundscape, Chaitanya Tamhane‘s THE DISCIPLE is a great look at musical passion, mediocrity and failure that reminded me of INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS. First-time actor Aditya Modak remarkably anchors a film that not only exhibits great technique but also divine truth.

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  Review by 🐱Andrew Chrzanowski🐱 ★★★★½ 17

  ☆"I have seen the best of them give up midway….But you must not."☆

  Since my first viewing a little over two months ago, I've only grown more firm in my view that The Disciple is the best film of the year, so far.

  And now after having seen Chaitanya Tamhane's debut feature Court, I can say that this is one of the most exciting young filmmakers in the world. Oh, what I would have given to see this in a theatre!

  I cannot implore you enough to watch this magical and transfixing movie, a Netflix release finally available widely as of this weekend, FIPRESCI and Best Screenplay winner at Venice last year and Independent Spirit Award nominee recently. As I…

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  Review by 20oldboy03 ★★★½ 2

  Hallo, ich bin die Netflix KI Kimiro und möchte mich für meinen Algorithmus entschuldigen. Denn diesem Algorithmus habe ich meinen schlechten Ruf zu verdanken, trotz, die Kritiker würden sagen, gerade deswegen, meiner Branchenoberheit was vielleicht darin liegen mag, einer der ersten richtigen Streaming-Anbieter auf dem Mark gewesen zu sein. Ergo war ich der Vorreiter, der Erster der Ersten, der Mann an vorderster Front der auch als erster vom Hof gejagt wurde ausgeweiteter Film- und Serienrechte die weit über das Studio- und das Vermarktungsrecht hinausgingen und es noch immer tun, an Landesgrenzen scheiterten und scheitern und sie anderorts, schließlich mach Not erfinderisch, zu überlisten.

  Ich blieb existent, zum trotz vieler Studios und Produzenten, sahen sie in mir einen neuen Gegner wie…

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  Review by Martin Velev ★★★★ 3

  77. Mostra - La Biennale di Venezia

  An aspiring singer of Raag (Indian classical music) is determined to become one of the greats. Is this Whiplash in India? Nope, the exact opposite (not in quality though).

  During the screening of The Disciple, half of the audience members left the room. And it's probably because they didn't enjoy the Raag. For a different culture, this type of singing is hard to be appreciated; however, as part of the film's instruments, the Raag fits in perfectly. Do you remember all those days when you could've found a job, but decided to focus on your artistic side? All the mentors you've listened to? All the hours spent? All the lonely moments you've had…

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  Review by Sean Gilman ★★★★ 2

  I wouldn’t know anything about devoting one’s life to an esoteric art form which no one really cares about and which one is not particularly good at. Nope. Can’t relate at all. Not me.

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  Review by Arjun Rajput ★★★★★ 2

  The most haunting film about art I've seen since Kaagaz Ke Phool.

  What I've been looking for in a classical Indian musical all along. Something which I thought was missing from Ray's Jalsaghar and found to some degree in Arijit Singh's Sa and Mani Kaul's Dhrupad. The feeling of trance. When you float along the long lingering shots, as the music creates an absolute hypnotic effect on you. I'm not much into poetry but when moans immediately cuts to Om, I call that poetic cinema.

  It ruminates upon the inherent questions every aspiring artist goes through. Is there a place of asceticism in this modern world full of distractions? The risk of investing the best years of your life to…

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  Review by Jitender ★★★★½ 1

  “Have no fear of perfection, you'll never reach it.”
  ― Salvador Dali

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  Review by Vedant Bansal ★★★★ 8

  "There's a reason why Indian classical music is considered an Eternal Quest."

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  Review by Lawrence Garcia ★★★★ 1

  From the outset, Tamhane clearly establishes his problematic—the story of a striving artist afraid of turning into his bitter failure of a father—then proceeds to complicate that familiar template by keeping our sense of the character and his own self-awareness out of sync. (Needless to say, an appropriate approach for a film about artistic ambition facing up the contingencies of taste and convention.) Impressively, Tamhane does so not by withholding the generic (comic) markers of failure, humiliation, and disappointment (e.g. the first competition, the thwarted romance into the masturbation/porn scene), but by canny shifts in emphasis and seemingly slight structural fillips. The staging and shooting style, particularly the slow, near-imperceptible push-ins, already give each scene a certain autonomy—though Tamhane finds…