Mumbai, May 8 -- Neha Dhupia and Adil Hussain starrer '52 Blue' is set to open the 17th London Indian Film Festival with its European premiere at the British Film Institute Southbank on July 9, reported Variety.

The movie is a coming-of-age drama about a sheltered young man's journey from Kerala to the FIFA World Cup in Qatar in pursuit of his childhood idol, Lionel Messi.

Directed by Ali El Arabi, the film will also screen at Midlands Arts Centre in Birmingham on July 10. El Arabi and members of the cast are scheduled to attend both screenings.

According to the outlet, '52 Blue' centres on Ashish (Yadav Shashidhar), a young man raised in isolation on a Kerala island by an overprotective father and a quietly encouraging mother, played ...