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- 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
Its spotlight on queer, female sire was an artistic risk an era when the untry still crimalized gay and lbian sex unr Sectn 377 of the Indian Penal Co, which had been place sce 1861.
Tanay se a glimpse of his potentially grim future his lerature teacher (played by Neil Bhoopalam), a gay man nursg a fierce, predatory csh on Tanay. “You and I are crimals this untry, ” the profsor tells Tanay, scribg how he endured electroshock therapy a bid to “cure” him of his homosexualy. 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.
COBALT BLUE’S PROMISE OF GAY UTOPIA WH S OWN -BUILT REPUDIATNS, UTNARY TAL
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