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‘Funny Boy’ Tries To Build Bridges Of Solidarity: Deepa Mehta Dec 12, 2020 10:08 PM IST India India Share In this exclusive interaction with News18's Divya Pal, filmmaker Deepa Mehta talks about what Oscar nomination for Funny Boy means to her, shares her views on the casting controversy of the film and explains why actors Siddharth Suryanarayan, R Madhavan & Parvathy couldn't do the film. The film was recently premiered at I-View Festival. -

‘This film is my love letter to the end of hatred’ But the childhood and the young adult and the young adult and the childhood are intrinsically linked by the sexuality, but also the emotions. Share Via Email   |  A+A A- Sayani Gupta, Deepa Mehta and Bani J at I View Human Rights Film Festival opening (December 10) DLF Cyberhub, Gurugram By Express News Service Parents in Sri Lanka, in India, the world over... when they see their child being queer, still say, ‘oh he’s just being creative’, instead of addressing an issue. But the childhood and the young adult and the young ...

Photo: ‘Funny Boy’/Netflix ‘Funny Boy’opens with an image of Sri Lanka that evokes paradise. Children navigate through pockets of shade among cavernous palms, like fawns prancing through the forest, as they run along the sand of an azure seashore. We see a mock bridal procession led by our young protagonist Arjie (Arush Nand), who wears bright red lipstick and a sari to match. His younger sister Sonali (Araina Nand) runs alongside him, dressed in a groom’s suit–trailing behind them are their girl cousins. Arriving at their family’s estate, where much of the film takes place, th...

▶︎ The conflict in Sri Lanka between the majority Sinhalese and the minority Tamils lasted 26 long years and concluded in 2009, leaving deep scars on both sides. It is a hugely emotive subject, especially when coupled with the topic of homosexuality, still considered taboo in most of South Asia. Shyam Selvadurai’s elegant 1994 novel, on which Funny Boy is based, dealt with both subjects in a sensitive fashion. IndoCanadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta, no stranger to emotive, taboo subjects, is best known for her Elements trilogy: Fire (1996) dealt with a lesbian relationship betw...

The Funny Film: A Call To Boycott Dr. Chamindra Weerawardhana It was undoubtedly the most frustrating cinematic experience ever. I watched Funny Boy by D. Mehta [DM] on CBC Gem, during the weekend of 5 th November 2020. It is indeed a ‘funny’ film, which does a great deal of injustice to a Lankan Tamil queer boy’s coming-of-age story. Funny Boy is a novel authored by a cis gay Tamil man, S. Selvadurai, who is a member of the global Tamil diaspora, or to be precise, the Lankan Tamil diaspora of the territories of Turtle Island we know as Canada. It is definitely a beautifully written boo...