Chaitanya: I am on my own artistic journey
If the world is meant to be known, perceived, and observed in its rawest form, Chaitanya Tamhane’s craft of storytelling is the apt lens to do so. The filmmaker who earned rave reviews with the 2014 courtroom drama ‘Court’, is currently basking in the success of his latest creation ‘The Disciple’. The movie, which won the Best Screenplay award at the 77th Venice International Film Festival, was also the first Indian film to compete at Venice since Mira Nair’s ‘Monsoon Wedding’. Both ‘The Disciple’ and ‘Court’ have paved the road for independent cinema in a country where commercial content rules. In an exclusive chat with ETimes, Chaitanya speaks about his latest outing ‘The Disciple’, the thought process behind it, and what he learned from Alfonso Cuaron. Read on: ‘The Disciple’ is a very sensitively observed portrait of the compromises an artist makes in bridging the gap between traditional and contemporary. What was your creative process in approaching that subject? That’s true. I