Music Teacher - a captivating film by Sarthak Dasgupta its simplistic storyline combined with intense acting, short and crisp dialogues, lovely music and picturesque backdrop of Himachal came as a treat in totality.
49 Reviews
It Portrayed all so Simply....
nilkanthawoods21 April 2019
Good movie
pallu-geo29 May 2019
Sweet love story
actorrahman-790-6361376 June 2020
Good movie...
sunildaswaney-6364213 August 2019
ENCHANTING
ronaldomanchestar7 September 2019
I watch a very few romantic movies and this would top the list for obvious reasons!
A very well made film. Each scene is a poetry in itself. Be it the long stares of Manav Kaul into the nothingness or the hopeless stares of Divya Dutta. This movie connects so well that one will be able to feel the gravity, the weight of the scenes. Sarthak Dasgupta has done a marvelous job to bring out this effect. The cinematography too is on point. And the songs, WOW. Besides the recreated versions of some beautiful old melodies, Sambhaal Rakhiyaan steals the show, at least for me. The songs are way too underrated. All in all this movie will leave you spellbound and cast a spell of "INTEZAAR" on you! Some of the dialogues will steal your heart.
Slow and decent.
anubhavgoyal-3928415 May 2019
The movie has a very slow pace on the story line. Though it written really well but the pace makes it a bit boring. Counting on the acting part every one did their part really well just the screenplay could be more refined and crisp so that it could be more engaging to watch it.
Typical pessimistic bong movie
user5155516 May 2019
Poetic
vasudevanramamurthy19 April 2019
Excellently made movie with captivating photography and mind blowing scenic locations. Well crafted movie with superb editing bringing alive a very sensitive love story on the screen. Very down to earth acting with no blemish. One more feather to the director Sarthak Dasgupta......
Beautiful, I love it
shersinghdx28 April 2019
Super Slow & Super Boring
NamrataRastogi8829 September 2019
Poignant........
devdev-8510719 April 2019
Just Marvelous .....Kaushik Mandal's breathtaking cinematography.......beautiful story line.........seamless editing.....down to earth acting........Melodious songs and back ground score.....everything...just everything makes this delightful movie utterly watchable.......Despite the story moves to and fro....present to the past and back to the present.....you can never experience the jumps and cuts...So seamless is the editing.....Kudos to the editing team .......Not to be missed.....
Poor film in every way
vin-1390322 February 2022
Main character is rude and condescending. Main female lead also very poor actor and too sickly sweet and happy to be mistreated. Managed to watch it to the end but it never improved !
I would give this a big thumbs down.
I would give this a big thumbs down.
Weird
Sachin_Chavan20 January 2022
I found the sensibility weird. The film was going nowhere either. Didn't feel like there was a genuine story the filmmakers had to tell. Never saw Neena Gupta so disinterested in a role. If this was an attempt at modern day Devdas, it failed.
Head over "Hills" in love
srabanikhankhan26 May 2019
Life and hills... both offers unspeakable beauty and ruthlessness. "Music teacher" took me to the core of that truth. It's a journey of love where stupidity replaces innocence, responsibility kills passion, repentance joins misery and all these emotions make me walk through the path of void, an endless void. I inherit the vacuum and become the character. I keep on walking into the sad reality. I see the clouds, I see the haze and I ponder...Do all incomplete love stories sound as sweet as Jonai? as helpless as Beni da?
Average movie !
nnk-3999011 April 2020
Simple yet profound
miniguptainsight21 April 2019
You may try to pass off this movie as something simple and one that's made in a tranquil setting. Peaceful and beautiful. But it's totally beyond all that simplicity and beauty in the scenes. It's a deep deep movie that expresses emotions and experiences that the characters go through in the movie. Made so meticulously, it intricately weaves in the threads of realization and thoughts that linger on even after you through watching it. Everyone has acted very well in the movie. Especially Divya Dutta and Manav! So carefully emoted with expressions in the right measure. The movie leaves its mark on you. Sarthak Dasgupta. Thank you for this lovely movie!
Slow and pointless
meghaprofile1 February 2024
I had high expectations from this movie because of the cast of the movie. But the movie goes so slow. I fail to understand the message the movie is trying to deliver.
There are elements.(for example the segment with Divya Dutta) that is so out of place. It adds no value to the movie. Every one is just trying to hold on to the past? I understand there can be sad endings but this was deliberately sad.
The film was going nowhere. It was just agitation all over. The direction was repetitive and slow. The main lead actress was very poor at her acting. Dialogue delivery felt very forced and not so well written.
There are elements.(for example the segment with Divya Dutta) that is so out of place. It adds no value to the movie. Every one is just trying to hold on to the past? I understand there can be sad endings but this was deliberately sad.
The film was going nowhere. It was just agitation all over. The direction was repetitive and slow. The main lead actress was very poor at her acting. Dialogue delivery felt very forced and not so well written.
Average movie
shukladhwani19 April 2021
A heart breaking tale of misplaced dreams
augustusdsilva23 April 2019
Sarthak Dasgupta takes you on an emotional roller coaster. A well crafted tale of misplaced priorities and dreams and the lure of the big city ; the loss of true love to personal ambition, the bitter consequences of resentment and the poor hand fate deals us all. The Music Teacher is a piece of cinematic art to be savored by all art film buffs.
Average movie
shukladhwani19 April 2021
A breathe of fresh air
syd-8036519 April 2019
Very nice movie, excellent song renditions
purveshkhona30 April 2019
Movie is excellent, in terms of direction, script, screenplay and subtle acting by Manav kaul , captures the essence of simple music teacher.
I wonder why "critics" are giving it average ratings.
This movie does capture essence of conflict of love and career very well. It does leave you moved.
Best part of the movie are songs, which again critics un-necessarily down rated. The songs are sung so well by singers - in fact the rendition is better than original songs.
I wonder why "critics" are giving it average ratings.
This movie does capture essence of conflict of love and career very well. It does leave you moved.
Best part of the movie are songs, which again critics un-necessarily down rated. The songs are sung so well by singers - in fact the rendition is better than original songs.
This film is a proof: great music, simple love and great art does not die!
rajsupe16 June 2019
Kabuliwala of Tagore, English Teacher of RK Narayana and Music Teacher by Sarthak Dasgupta. I am wondering what it is about these straight-out and heart-warming stories which have become like an extinct species these days.
I saw Music Teacher last night. It was most wonderful. I cannot believe it was made in 2019. Nothing about it is quite today; though ironically, the hills never age, the beauty of Himachal and the quiet melodies, sense of beautiful loneliness, are ever-present. The film is time-wrapped, and yet it would appeal to everyone because of its universal emotion.
Protagonist under an umbrella, raindrops falling from its sides; a bridge on the river, a smoke in a quiet corner, the characteristic non-committal hue of love, so familiar to the yester era where professing was banal, and reticence, diffidence, bashfulness were sacred even if they made gashes into life. I had exactly the same feel watching Music Teacher as Blue Umbrella and Aandhi (though Blue Umbrella wasn't as great a story experience as it was a visual treat)
Music Teacher could well have been released a good 40 years ago and still done well. In fact, it's like one of those Hrishikesh Mukherjee type films. And as good! The director, Sarthak Dasgupta, has done a wonderful job with absolutely natural actors like Manav Kaul, a gem in understated and sublime acting, Divya Dutta, sheer brilliance of sense and substance, Neena Gupta, candidness in motion and Amrita Bagchi, a splash of fresh mountain spring acting. Sarthak's writing is life-nuanced, I mean if there were words to accompany smiles and sighs and silences and songs, simple but deeply-fetched, then those are his.
This film is a proof: great music does not die, simple love does not die, and artists fascinated by the classics may fall out on the sides and be ignored by the contemporary world, because their emotions are of the old times, but they manage a great time travel. Sarthak's film is a tribute to some great cinema of the past, but more importantly, it being made in 2019 is good news to me (a sort of dated author): it says we have an old soul, revivable anytime, and beauty is an old song and we can be lucky and render it afresh like Sarthak did.
I saw Music Teacher last night. It was most wonderful. I cannot believe it was made in 2019. Nothing about it is quite today; though ironically, the hills never age, the beauty of Himachal and the quiet melodies, sense of beautiful loneliness, are ever-present. The film is time-wrapped, and yet it would appeal to everyone because of its universal emotion.
Protagonist under an umbrella, raindrops falling from its sides; a bridge on the river, a smoke in a quiet corner, the characteristic non-committal hue of love, so familiar to the yester era where professing was banal, and reticence, diffidence, bashfulness were sacred even if they made gashes into life. I had exactly the same feel watching Music Teacher as Blue Umbrella and Aandhi (though Blue Umbrella wasn't as great a story experience as it was a visual treat)
Music Teacher could well have been released a good 40 years ago and still done well. In fact, it's like one of those Hrishikesh Mukherjee type films. And as good! The director, Sarthak Dasgupta, has done a wonderful job with absolutely natural actors like Manav Kaul, a gem in understated and sublime acting, Divya Dutta, sheer brilliance of sense and substance, Neena Gupta, candidness in motion and Amrita Bagchi, a splash of fresh mountain spring acting. Sarthak's writing is life-nuanced, I mean if there were words to accompany smiles and sighs and silences and songs, simple but deeply-fetched, then those are his.
This film is a proof: great music does not die, simple love does not die, and artists fascinated by the classics may fall out on the sides and be ignored by the contemporary world, because their emotions are of the old times, but they manage a great time travel. Sarthak's film is a tribute to some great cinema of the past, but more importantly, it being made in 2019 is good news to me (a sort of dated author): it says we have an old soul, revivable anytime, and beauty is an old song and we can be lucky and render it afresh like Sarthak did.
A healthy feed for a healthy mind
moumitadeb-1273931 May 2019
A beautiful story...beautiful execution...loved the simplicity of the complex relationships..the movie will touch your heart and will make you feel the love within yourself in today's world. A must must just watch movie...will bewaiting for more movies like this from Mr.Sarthak Dasgupta.
Heartwarming and beautiful
msunando26 April 2019
Music Teacher - watch the film on Netflix.
It's a languid narrative of a music teacher whose aspirations and life were laid low due to a complex relationship with his protege that bordered on love, but had an element of selfish motive.
Shot in the beautiful backdrop of Shimla, Music Teacher is a treat to the sore eyes. It's laid back pace is congruent to the life in the hill stations, devoid of the hustle bustle of the city life. It's an essay on the beauty of nature and the simplicity of human relationships.
Manav Kaul and Amrita Bagchi are outstanding in the portrayal of the teacher and student, and the ending is perhaps a foregone conclusion, yet tugging at the heartstrings. Sarthak Dasgupta's direction is spot on, and the rendition of most of the songs by Papon is haunting. Must watch!
It's a languid narrative of a music teacher whose aspirations and life were laid low due to a complex relationship with his protege that bordered on love, but had an element of selfish motive.
Shot in the beautiful backdrop of Shimla, Music Teacher is a treat to the sore eyes. It's laid back pace is congruent to the life in the hill stations, devoid of the hustle bustle of the city life. It's an essay on the beauty of nature and the simplicity of human relationships.
Manav Kaul and Amrita Bagchi are outstanding in the portrayal of the teacher and student, and the ending is perhaps a foregone conclusion, yet tugging at the heartstrings. Sarthak Dasgupta's direction is spot on, and the rendition of most of the songs by Papon is haunting. Must watch!
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