S Jayakumar’s ‘Blue Star’ is a cricketing drama that could have used less cricket, more human drama

The film stars Ashok Selvan, Shanthnu Bhagyaraj, Keerthi Pandian. The intent is solid, but the generic nature of the writing and the characters hamper the narrative.

S Jayakumar makes his writing-directing debut with Blue Star, presented by Pa Ranjith. The film is about how an underdog team from Arakkonam beats an elite, white-uniformed, English-speaking side – also upper-class, upper-caste – that trains at “MCF” Cricket Club, possibly a stand-in for MRF Pace Academy. But even within Arakkonam, there is a division between the dominant and the oppressed: there is the “oor” and there is the “colony”. In other words, the local enmity – personified by Ranjith (Ashok Selvan) and Rajesh (Shanthnu Bhagyaraj) – has to be set right. The locals have to set aside their differences in order to unite against a common enemy that says that they lack the “thagudhi” – the worthiness – to even enter that well-manicured cricketing ground. The man who keeps that ground well-manicured (Bhagavathy Perumal) is also from Arakkonam. He was once a cricketer. Now, he trims grass.

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