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One of the things that is abundantly clear in Funny Boy is that identity is complicated. In this gay coming-of-age story set during the lead-up to the civil war in Sri Lanka, director Deepa Mehta ambitiously juxtaposes a teenage love story with rising political tensions and ethnic violence in a film that is ultimately about thriving and sometimes just surviving as someone deemed different. Based on the Lambda Award-winning 1994 novel by Sri Lankan Canadian author Shyam Selvadurai, who also co-wrote the adaptation with Mehta, Funny Boy is Canada s official selection to compete in the international feature category at the 2021 Academy Awards. (And as an Array Releasing acquisition, Funny Boy comes with acclaimed filmmaker Ava DuVernay s stamp of approval.) ....
Funny Boy is now streaming on Netflix. The film is the latest from Indo-Canadian director Deepa Mehta, known for her acclaimed queer Elements Trilogy: Fire (1996), Water (2005). Funny Boy, Canada s Oscar submission for Best International Feature Film, centers on a boy named Arjie (Arush Nand and Brandon Ingram), who is coming of age and questioning his sexuality in 1970s and 80s Sri Lanka. Based on the best-selling Canadian novel by Shyam Selvadurai, the film follows Arjie s journey toward self-acceptance in a society that is not accepting, as the nation also wrestles with political strife between the minority Tamils and the majority Sinhalese. ....
Funny Boy. ARRAY In the opening pages of the 1994 Canadian novel Funny Boy, a young Sri Lankan boy named Arjie refuses to play cricket with the boys as his father insists. He d rather bedazzle in bridal reds and join the girls make-believe wedding. Novelist Shyam Selvadurai s gay coming of age novel became a critical and commercial sensation in Canada when it was first published, enduring as a pioneering story of queerness, politics, and South Asian history. As the new film adaptation opens with the sound of the ocean establishing the lush seafront tropical landscape of Sri Lanka a group of girls run across the screen, with Arjie s veil billowing in the wind, gender non-conforming and proudly leading the way. ....
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