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Copy to Clipboard (ARRAY) Set in Sri Lanka during the 1970s and 1980s, 'Funny Boy' explores the sexual awakening of its young protagonist Arjun "Arjie" Chelvaratnam as political tensions escalate in the country between the minority Tamils and the majority Sinhalese. Even though the film is Canada’s 2021 Academy Awards entry for Best International Feature Film, the controversy around casting has dogged 'Funny Boy'. The main cast playing Tamil characters are mostly Sinhalese (Sri Lanka’s majority population) and North Indian -- which has evoked protests from the Tamil diaspora who hav...

Funny Boy review – Sri Lankan rites-of-passage tale clashes with political reality Cath Clarke There is something a bit soapy and melodramatic about this queer coming-of-age drama from Sri Lanka, picked up by Ava DuVernay’s company Array and released by Netflix. It’s the tale of a gay Tamil boy, Arjie (played first by Arush Nand and later Brandon Ingram), growing up in the 1970s and 80s as tensions escalate between Tamils and the Sinhalese majority. The storytelling works better in the first half, with some heart-tugging scenes as puzzled little Arjie struggles to unders...

Vehicles and what temperature it needs to be for that to occur. the police officer went on to say "justin stated that he was fearful that this could happen." what remains unclear is exactly when that search was done. friends and family say the man police paint as a murderer is not the man they know. >> i want that he would be able to forgive himself. >> reporter: family friend carol brown. >> it just seems out of character for ross, and i know people change. it's been 15 years or so since we've had contact in the church, so you know, people change. but it's just hard for me to imagine that tha...