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Funny Boy is a 2020 drama film, directed by Deepa Mehta. [1] An adaptation of Shyam Selvadurai 's 1994 novel of the same name, the film centres on the coming of age of Arjie Chelvaratnam, a young Tamil boy in Sri Lanka who is coming to terms with his homosexuality against the backdrop of the increased tensions between Tamil and Sinhalese people ...
Dec 10, 2020 · With Agam Darshi, Nimmi Harasgama, Ali Kazmi, Seema Biswas. Explores Arjie's sexual awakening from a young boy to a teenager who falls in love with a male classmate, just as political tensions escalate between the Sinhalese and Tamils in the years leading up to the 1983 uprisings.
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- Drama
- Deepa Mehta
- 2020-12-10
Dec 10, 2020 · A coming-of-age story set in Sri Lanka during the leadup to the decades-long Sri Lankan Civil War, “Funny Boy” is strongest when it considers how heteronormative gender roles and patriarchal thinking quash individual desire and expression.
A young Tamil boy growing up gay in Sri Lanka during the deadly Tamil-Sinhalese conflict.
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- Agam Darshi
- Deepa Mehta
- Drama
Dec 6, 2020 · The Sri Lankan-Canadian Selvadurai is the award-winning author of Funny Boy, the dramatic 1994 novel set in the 1980s that has been adapted to screen by Indian Canadian filmmaker Deepa...
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- Ryan B. Patrick
Based on the novel by Shyam Selvadurai and set in Sri Lanka in the 1970s and 80s, Deepa Mehta's FUNNY BOY explores the sexual awakening of a boy named Arjie set against the...
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This heartbreaking tale of love and loss follows Arjie (Nand as a child, Ingram as an adult), a Tamil child in Sri Lanka, who is referred to as a “funny boy” by his family, because he doesn’t behave like the other boys.
