Author and director: S Jayakumar
Forged: Ashok Selvan, Shanthanu Bhagyaraj, Keerthi Pandian, Prithvirajan, Bagavathi Perumal
Out there in: Theatres
Period: 166 minutes
It’s solely the primary month of 2024 and Tamil cinema has already made movies with sturdy political statements and dared to go to areas not typically explored. If Captain Miller talks about how an oppressed neighborhood within the pre-independence period needed to struggle two battles for freedom, Blue Star, set within the late 90s, shares the identical emotion. It digs deeper into the societal constructions to lend us a more moderen and extra complicated perspective.
There isn’t a dearth of cricket films in Kollywood — if Kanaa (2018) and Jeeva (2014) had been vocal concerning the politics in sports activities, biopics like 800 displayed the realities of it. Even in any other case, many sports activities dramas together with Sarpatta Parambarai (2021), Bigil (2019), Badri (2001), Ethir Neechal (2013) and others haven’t shied away from exhibiting the totally different types of discrimination. So what does Blue Star provide otherwise?
The movie introduces us to 2 teen teams in Arakkonam, a suburb of Chennai. One among them is known as the colony folks (colony pasanga), whereas the opposite is known as the village space folks (oor theru pasanaga) and the latter belongs to the higher strata. Ranjith (Ashok Selvan) leads the colony cricket staff, Blue Star, whereas Rajesh (Shanthnu Bhagyaraj) is the captain of the village space staff, Alpha Boys. This inherent division results in discrimination. However when an individual from the village group goes exterior the village, he’s out of the blue now not on high of the hierarchy and is on the receiving finish of humiliation. The disagreeable aspect of his privilege and a query of identification slowly creep in. This sturdy perspective lays the muse for the strong storytelling in Blue Star. The groups then attempt to come collectively to show themselves and tackle the league gamers in a much bigger match.