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Cobalt Blue(Netflix) *** Films about the LGBTQ community are still very rare in India. Producers claim that family audiences are not comfortable with gay themes in cinema. Sachin Kundalkar’s Cobalt Blue has its flaws…major flaws…but it is an important take on the male gaze . That the novel(by the director Kundalkar) in Marathi was published in 2006 when Article 377 was a living reality,makes the film all the more relevant, resonant and finally deeply ruminative in spite of the flaws. In some vital ways it reminded me of Luca Guadagnino’s | Click Here...