Neelay Mehendale gave a marvelous performance of a sensitive gay boy trying to find love in its purest way through poems and art. Neil Bhoopalam in his cameo acted as a closeted Professor. In fact, Tanay’s sister Anuja shifts between variable personalities so quickly that we never clearly get to know her point of view or her side of the story. However, in Cobalt Blue, we don’t get the chance to feel the grief of Tanay and we are so lost in decoding the last-minute twists of the movie that the protagonist’s arc feels incomplete. In Call Me By Your Name, grief becomes a sudden part of the gay couple's journey and sticks to the core of the narrative. Some dynamics of Cobalt Blue may be very similar to Call Me By Your Name but Cobalt Blue seems to be lacking a proper execution. The whole Kerala looks more aesthetic than ever just like the city of Crema in Call Me By Your Name. Whereas, when he meets Prateik Babbar, he is wearing a red shirt indicating the color of love whereas Tanay is wearing a yellow shirt indicating a new ray of hope and happiness in his life. For example, Tanay, the protagonist mostly wears shades of blue which reflects his calm personality and also his imagination which is as big as the sky. What really acts as icing on the cake for this film is the way it played with colors and how aesthetically pleasing the film looked. It is a journey of sexual awakening that forgets to be an empathetic queer love story. The book gives perspective on both Tanay and Anuja but the film seems to fail in translating the same on the screen. However, there are some twists that make the plot much more intriguing but at the same time a little confusing. It’s pretty much like Call Me By Your Name, be it the color composition or the narrative progression. It foretells a story of a brother and sister who both fall in love with their new tenant. Sachin Kundalkar’s Cobalt Blue was published in Marathi in 2006 and was translated in 2013. Ĭobalt Blue is a carefully nurtured narrative that oscillates between fantasy and reality although it isn’t always successful in execution. It’s a story well-portrayed with primary colors where colors convey way more emotions than the character arcs. It is a poignant portrayal of a queer love story in which siblings fall in love with the same guy. Sachin Kundalkar’s Cobalt Blue talks about a world where people are still shy about their sexual awakening.
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