{"id":86081,"date":"2020-10-09T19:50:22","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T16:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-the-disciple-take-one-and-film-reviews\/"},"modified":"2020-10-09T19:50:22","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T16:50:22","slug":"watch-the-disciple-take-one-and-film-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-disciple-take-one-and-film-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch  The Disciple | TAKE ONE and Film Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a420ada27c72\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a420ada27c72\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-disciple-take-one-and-film-reviews\/#%E2%80%9CThe_Disciple_TAKE_ONE_Watch_Online%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;The Disciple | TAKE ONE Watch Online&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CThe_Disciple_TAKE_ONE_Watch_Online%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;The Disciple | TAKE ONE Watch Online&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/takeonecinema.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/lff20-e1601918067585.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"116\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-37668\"\/><strong>A tradition in art is a conversation conducted by artists across time. In classical Indian aesthetics, the concept of Rasa, or taste, is essential: its presence will activate in the observer an emotion specific to that art. But if the artist fails to activate that emotional response, and is thereby unable to converse with those who came before them, what then? Even worse, what if the tradition the artist works in conceals its weaknesses, has an unclear, shrouded methodology, and is based in reactionary thinking? Is the tradition \u2013 if its practitioners aren\u2019t good enough, if it can\u2019t readily communicate itself to a contemporary audience \u2013 even worth the energy spent to preserve it? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>These, among many others, are questions broached in Chaitanya Tamhane\u2019s THE DISCIPLE. The acolyte here is Sharad (Aditya Modak), a devotee of Hindustani classical music, who studies with his guruji (Arun Dravid) to become a vocalist specialising in raag, improvisational compositions emphasising the artful interaction of voice and instrument. He spends his downtime listening to recordings of the much-acclaimed (by those Sharad emulates) Maai, a singer in the tradition whose lectures pinpoint the dedication to truth required of the music\u2019s practitioners. He listens while riding his moped, shown in slowed-motion, plugging out the world as notes from a sitar\u2019s strings resound and he enters into an elitist fantasy of his own unperceived greatness.<\/p>\n<p>Sharad is beginning to enter vocal competitions, and flashbacks demonstrate how his passion for the music was kindled: his father, obsessive and not too observant of the effects of this obsession, is shown lecturing young Sharad on the technicalities of raag, while the boy keeps on at the harmonium, interested, but not that interested. Years later, the adult Sharad has inherited not only his father\u2019s ardour but a number of his other inhospitable habits. He\u2019s self-centred to exactly the same degree that he lacks self-awareness. During one competition early in the film, as the prize winners are announced, the camera dollies towards Sharad, as if in expectation of his victory. His name goes unmentioned, and the camera keeps training in on him, undermining any sense of his adequacy. <\/p>\n<p>By comparison with Tamhane\u2019s debut, COURT, the direction in THE DISCIPLE is more insistent and the style less static, which are both to the film\u2019s benefit, and, at times, not. Tamhane (who also edits the film) favours staging-in-depth, allowing a viewer to select the element in the space worth isolating, and he frequently composes his shots with pronounced diagonals, which create (with splendid economy) oppositions within a single frame. But where the stasis of the camera in COURT contributes to its sense of dynamism, the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">script<\/a> and performances allowed room to roam without distractions, the style of his second film opts for self-consciously bravura movements \u2013 dolly and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a>ling shots galore. Sometimes these are employed with great relish (the Teacher\u2019s Day act; Sharad\u2019s final performance), but other moments are purely reiterative of something Modak\u2019s acting communicates with abundant clarity: the unbridgeable distance between Sharad\u2019s estimation of himself and the treatment he\u2019s afforded. And, similar to the very final gesture of COURT, an opacity creeps into THE DISCIPLE that can be readily attributed to the main character. Still, on occasion \u2013 Sharad, late in the day, jumping around his bedroom \u2013 it looks like an opacity coming from the director\u2019s department. <\/p>\n<p>THE DISCIPLE is structured across three time-periods with flashbacks nestled into each, and across its different sections the film is closely attentive to how Sharad interacts with <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>, and how these change over time. His side-gig early in the film involves digitising analogue media, which is how he has access to Maai\u2019s reactionary lectures. In the film\u2019s later movements, looking precisely like his father, Sharad continues adapting to technological changes but also appears to disdain them. He stops in the street to stare at a large perfume advert of a woman beckoning him towards her; his porn consumption is notably altered; he watches, with a dismissive, bored scowl, a TV talent show called Fame India, charting the \u201cjourney\u201d of a contestant from a shy young woman into a charismatic pop-star, related in a glitzy, hyperactive style. Sharad\u2019s interest in these media \u2013 or at least the recurring ways in which he notices them \u2013 is Tamhane\u2019s interest too: the film\u2019s presentation of this mass of authorless moving images seems like the director reflecting upon the cinema. <\/p>\n<p>The potential hauteur of this attitude should not be confused with the one evident in Sharad\u2019s beloved tapes of Maai\u2019s esoteric verbiage; in a flashback, meticulously placed in the narrative, Sharad meets a music critic who, in a great slow-burning conversation, dispels some of his illusions. THE DISCIPLE is its own argument against both the superiority inculcated in Sharad by Maai and his guruji and the hollowness of forms inspired by the aesthetics of advertising. As such the film\u2019s most skilful act is the tonal control, in the vein of INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS, involved in facilitating Sharad\u2019s gradual slide into an awareness of his own disappointments; of his emerging cognisance of being too far gone in life, of not having done enough earlier, of having been backed, by his wobbly ideas of artistic purity, into a corner out from which he cannot move. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"THE DISCIPLE (2020) by Chaitanya Tamhane - International Trailer\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-S-N6-Bfv84?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more Like this articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-movies-tv-series\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Watch Movies &#038; TV Series <\/a>category<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"http:\/\/takeonecinema.net\/2020\/the-disciple\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Disciple | TAKE ONE Watch Online&#8221; A tradition in art is a conversation conducted by artists across time. 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