Blue Star review: Ashok Selvan’s spirited anti-caste cricket film almost hits the right spots
What sets ‘Blue Star’ apart is the complexity of the caste politics explored in the film. But this also becomes its undoing because the message gets trite and progressively repetitive.
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Mari Selvaraj, ‘Maamannan’, and the cinema of caste in Tamil Nadu
A new generation of Tamil filmmakers are confronting the caste-glorification films of the past – but controversy is often quick to follow, and Tamil cinema’s history with caste is more complex than many recognise. Karthik Ram Manoharan writes.
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A new generation of Tamil filmmakers are confronting the caste-glorification films of the past – but controversy is often quick to follow, and Tamil cinema’s history with caste is more complex than many recognise
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