The Disciple, which won the Best Screenplay Award at the Venice Film Festival where it was premiered, is based on the play Gray Elephants in Denmark, written by young screenwriter and director Chaitanya Tamhane when he was 21 and focused on the life of a magician. In his second feature film, The Disciple, Tamhane decides to put a musician in the center of the story, rather than a magician, although he does not know much about the history, structure and internal dynamics of Indian classical music. Thus, on the one hand, the main character Sharad Nerulkar (Aditya Modak), who is afraid of facing an ending like his father, who turns to music research because of his poor voice, is moving to the inevitable end;
In his second feature film, The Disciple, Tamhane decides to put a musician in the center of the story, rather than a magician, although he does not know much about the history, structure and internal dynamics of Indian classical music. Thus, on the one hand, the main character Sharad Nerulkar (Aditya Modak), who is afraid to face an ending like his father, who turns to music research because of his poor voice, is moving to the inevitable end. On the other hand, with the transforming city of Mumbai, a multi-faceted view of the influence of westernization in the east has been developed through the gradually declining interest in North Indian classical music, which dates back two centuries.