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The White Tiger rides the surge in streamed south Asian stories Beware the hired help … Adarsh Gourav and Priyanka Chopra Jonas in The White Tiger. Photograph: Tejinder Singh Khamkha/Netflix Beware the hired help … Adarsh Gourav and Priyanka Chopra Jonas in The White Tiger. Photograph: Tejinder Singh Khamkha/Netflix The adaptation of Aravind Adiga’s Booker-winning novel is coming to Netflix – one of a growing number of films from the region snapped up by the streaming giants AshantiOmkar Wed 20 Jan 2021 03.00 EST Last modified on Fri 22 Jan 2021 09.39 EST The White Tiger, the film a...

About this Gallery The opening ceremony of the I-View World Film Festival was held in Gurgaon on the occasion of Human Rights Day. The event was attended by fil... Read More The opening ceremony of the I-View World Film Festival was held in Gurgaon on the occasion of Human Rights Day. The event was attended by filmmaker Deepa Mehta, whose film ‘Funny Boy’ was screened at the opening, and other actors like Swara Bhasker, Sayani Gupta, Rajesh Tailang and filmmakers like Onir and Faraz Arif Ansari.Read Less 01 / 35 01 p Actress Swara Bhasker looks stunning as she strikes a pose during the o...

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Here is another film success story and this time it is more relevant to us Sri Lankans, so celebration is called for; any optimistic silver lining being welcome in these dark days of fear of infection. I speak of the release, attracting the world’s art and film attention, of Shyam Selvadorai’s early, acclaimed 1994 autobiographical novel ‘Funny Boy’ which won the Books in Canada First Novel Award. Direction is by famed, many awards winning Indian Canadian Deepa Mehta who is familiar with Sri Lanka having filmed the second of her elements trilogy ‘Water’ with a few Sri Lankan actor...

We watched the film, Funny Boy, directed by Deepa Mehta and adapted from Shyam Selvadurai’s 1994 novel, twice. We were surrounded by the numerous debates  and controversies about the film. The first time we watched it was with my daughter, aged 14 and the second time on January 1 with a small group of friends in Batticaloa, all of whom had lived through the war and worked tirelessly as peace activists. Both times the film took us to our own memories of the late 1970s and early 1980s.  We spoke of family members and ourselves being caught in the different violent incidents and riots pictur...