Very natural and realistic acting and direction. Touching story expressed in a very subtle way.

A hypnotic masterpiece

The story of a young man learning to master his craft while the world around him is changing and loosing interest in his craft. Beautiful story but also rather sad.

A masterpiece. Chaitanya tamhane has outdone himself. Cinematography, the direction, the performances by the actors were all spectacular. We can see the influence of Alfonso Cuarón especially with the Visuals of the film

I loved, loved, loved this film. Sensitive. So much actually happens, so many emotions and inner life situations. Complex. The final scene's message breathtaking. What would have happened if...

Whilst completely behind the narrative journey, and the heavy reliance on the rolling scenes to carry both the traditional music score and said narrative, this is at least 45mins too long. It's meandering through the story shows off the style of music, but misses the focus on it being a drama not a documentary. As a result, it doesn't deliver the sense of cultural significance of what we're being shown. That said, the detailed character study is incredible

La película está bien realizada; sin embargo, pudo tener una duración más corta y una trama más interesante; aunque sigue siendo una película decente.

I just didn't get it or enjoy it and frankly by the end I just couldn't wait for it to end! Final Score: 3/10

A total bogus. This movie is just another propaganda piece which defames Indian classical music and musicians and singers by blaming them that they were hypocrite, they exploits youths, they were of cheap mentality etc . This film shows Hindu music artist as fraud. This films also frames the classical music diciple as hypocrite, careless towards his mother, having blind faith. Also shows his music teacher as fraud and using his own diciple. On the other hand it promotes how Muslims artist enriched the classical music of India.

Not essential viewing, but perhaps a realistic look at trying to succeed in learning and performing classical Indian music. Any form of romanticism has been stripped away in this depiction, but the life-lesson realities are thought-provoking nonetheless. Perhaps the patience to outlast decades of stagnation is borne in the belief that there will be a succession of lifetimes to work out one's ultimate destiny. If not, the sobering lesson here may be finding fleeting moments of bliss in the festering monotony of failure. Society's infatuation with flash-in-the-pan entertainment eclipses the discipline inherent in perfecting a traditional art form. And yet the sympathetic vibrations of the eternal can be intoxicating if one is able to unravel its subtle wavelengths.

I hope this movie gets the recognition it deserves. An absolute gem of a movie about the struggle of an artist in this commercial world.

When you finish watching this movie you are filled with a sense of emptiness. The movie is a tragedy of someone who devotes his life to a dream but is unable to achieve it. At the same time it's not a tragedy because it doesn't result in death of the person or the death of the person's steadfast aspirations. The camera work draws you in to make your own conclusions without focusing too much on the protagonists only. The bike scenes where he's listening to his guruji are just brilliantly shot and evoked a sense of being there in a city that never sleeps, yet in these scenes there is no one on the streets, portraying just the protagonist and his thoughts. You need to have patience to appreciate the brilliance of the script and you will be rewarded with amazing camera work and natural acting. What I liked about the movie is that the director wants you to be a part of the movie not spoon feeding it to you but letting you immerse in it and for you to draw your own conclusions.

When an aspiring Indian classical musician struggles to hone his craft, mostly under the tutelage of masters who demand unattainable perfection, he succumbs to doubt, frustration and disillusionment that he'll never reach his goal, feelings made worse when he witnesses others attain success with relative ease. The problem here, though, is that the screenplay fails to bring out these qualities as definitively as it could have due to its somewhat underdeveloped, occasionally unbalanced attempt to straddle the fence between expository drama and character study. To its credit, director Chaitanya Tamhane's second feature includes a wealth of mesmerizing classical Indian pieces (perhaps even bordering on a few too many at the expense of the narrative), a beautiful palette of photographic effects, a collection of intriguing voiceover insights about the relationship between music and the divine, and a strong finish in the film's closing 30 minutes. However, the picture's failure to resolve certain story threads and its sometimes-hazy focus on the core plot keep this offering from living up to the potential it might have otherwise achieved.

I understand that this is not a movie for everyone and someone has to dig into many aspects of what we call art, music, quality etc. I am very happy that I saw it.

This is a movie about a normal life in a career where the extraordinary is valued to the extreme to the point of being mythical, recreated and exaggerated by the ones orbiting it, much like many others, much like a celebrity-focused career. Very nice.

If you want hear people hum the same note for 2 hours this movie is for you!

RATING: A+ Director: Chamtanya Tamhane The Disciple is an honest and incredibly intelligent tale about an Indian musician who tries to become better than he ever will be. The lead does an good an you can feel that everyone in the Cast wants to be really invested in the film. Tamhane's Direction is incredibly impressive. There really isn't much camera movement and she really loves doing static wide shots, or starting with an wide shot and doing a really slow move in. It's fantastic. Although it might be too slow for some people. But every cinephile and Filmmaker will love it.

The film's impressive formal rigour is in perfect consonance with the purpose that drives the austere narrative and the spaces, ideas and sounds within and around which it unfolds.

Well not very much of a critic but as a viewer it couldn't hold me on. Plus you expect the camera to move, sometimes. Story good, satire (pun) intended good, depth - none, cinematography - well nothing really to say... At your Own risk.!

Executive Produced by Alfonso Cuarón (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Askaban, Children of Men, Gravity & Roma), The Disciple is Director Chaitanya Tamhane’s second outing after the brilliant satire drama Court. The Disciple is a character study of an Indian classical singer who strives to achieve divine purity in his singing. He dreams to one day match the excellence of his Guru (teacher) and struggles every day to cast away from the shadows of his father’s failure, to become a renowned singer. The cinematography and the camerawork reminded me of Roma. It was as if Chaitanya, The Disciple was striving to match his Guru Alfonso (and succeeding at it I might add). This is a slow burn that requires you to pay attention. In return it never demands you to have any knowledge of Indian Classical Music, the sound designer *takes care of that. You just have to bring the feeling of relatability of pursuing your dreams. This is a journey of an artist in the city of Mumbai who, despite years of devotion and determination, battling against continuous struggle of overcoming mediocrity, culminates to disappointment and self-doubt. How must one then overcome it?