(ANSA) - VENICE, 04 SEPT - With THE DISCIPLE by ChaitanyaTamhane you enter, more than in a film, in a sort of fictional documentary.
In competition for India in this 77th edition of the Venice International Film Festival, it tells, even too didactically, of an unknown and difficult world: that of Indian classical music.
A music that more than a genre is a faith to be practiced throughout one's life. Protagonist of the film, Sharad Nerulkar who has only one goal in life: to become a consecrated and recognized artist of Indian classical music. To do this, also thanks to the paternal education that introduced him to this difficult art, he is willing to do anything. For him not only the practice and attendance of a guru who corrects and stimulates him, but also that of various musical circles. A research, his, which lasts a lifetime, but which could also lead to nothing. Trying to master his art at the highest levels, in Sharad comes the awareness of the many rituals of the past, the reinterpretation of legendary myths of this genre and also the desire to collect, put order in all this material. But over time, the boy will find that his aspirations are too ambitious for his abilities. Thus he will have to find, in a contemporary and chaotic Mumba that he crosses with his naked bike, another path to be able to live, even if not too far from what he wanted. A curiosity: Oscar winner Alfonso Cuarón is the executive producer of THE DISCIPLE, the first Indian film in almost twenty years that passes in competition at the Lido. (HANDLE).
