Contents:
- COBALT BLUE REVIEW: ‘COBALT BLUE’ IS A SOLVED STORY OF THE PLITED STORY OF GAY RELATNSHIPS
- COBALT BLUE’S PROMISE OF GAY UTOPIA WH S OWN -BUILT REPUDIATNS, UTNARY TAL
COBALT BLUE REVIEW: ‘COBALT BLUE’ IS A SOLVED STORY OF THE PLITED STORY OF GAY RELATNSHIPS
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A cursory look at the Indian streamg landspe broadly might suggt there’s ample room for queer-driven stori: Netflix India has distributed Loev (2015), a romance between two queer men; the male protagonist of Amazon Prime Vio’s 2019 Indian miseri Ma Heaven is gay; and a major plot pot the send season of the same pany’s Four More Shots Please!, released 2020 and billed as India’s answer to Sex and the Cy, revolv around a planned weddg between two women. But some skepticism might be worthwhile here: Consir, as a unterexample to such tl, the fate of the aforementned filmmaker Deepa Mehta’s Funny Boy (2020), a g-of-age tale about a young, gay Sri Lankan man. Also Read: Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan review: Perfect primer for Indians to talk about homosexualyMen Cobalt Blue.
COBALT BLUE’S PROMISE OF GAY UTOPIA WH S OWN -BUILT REPUDIATNS, UTNARY TAL
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