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‘Funny Boy’ Filmmaker Deepa Mehta Wants You to Smell Sri Lanka IndieWire 1/1/2021 From her groundbreaking Elements Trilogy to “Funny Boy,” her gorgeous new queer coming-of-age tale currently streaming on Netflix, Deepa Mehta makes films to delight all of the senses. For her immersive adaptation of Sri Lankan-Canadian author Shyam Selvadurai’s beloved novel “Funny Boy,” Mehta kept one particular sense in mind: “I want people to smell ‘Funny Boy.’ You should smell it, smell the palm trees, you can smell the water.” Raised in New Delhi and living in Toronto since 1973, th...

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...