![]() While Cobalt Blue rivals the picturesque setting of the Italian summers in the film and tries to point out the same metaphors and symbolism, it falls short in terms of narrative structure and coherence. ![]() Much like Cobalt Blue, Luca Guadagnino’s 2017 film Call Me By Your Name, starring Timothee Chalamet and Armie Hammer, focused on a sweltering love affair amidst two men who are eventually separated by both physical and emotional distance. Directed by Sachin Kundalkar, the author of the eponymous Marathi novel, Cobalt Blue is a daring and delicate queer love story that, however, misses the mark, and we will explore why. ![]() In an extremely poignant and tender moment, a closeted Professor tells his heartbroken gay student, “Women take away every man you love.” The protagonist looks at his Professor forlornly, reminiscing the brutal, earth-shattering emptiness he feels in his heart as he grapples with his forbidden homoerotic desires in the 1980s and 90s India where homosexuality is taboo. ![]()
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