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Funny Boy is a 2020 drama film, directed by Deepa Mehta. An adaptation of Shyam Selvadurai 's 1994 novel of the same name , the film centres on the coming of age of Arjie Chelvaratnam, a young Tamil boy in Sri Lanka who is coming to terms with his homosexuality against the backdrop of the increased tensions between Tamil and Sinhalese people ...
Dec 10, 2020 · Explores Arjie's sexual awakening from a young boy to a teenager who falls in love with a male classmate, just as political tensions escalate between the Sinhalese and Tamils in the years leading up to the 1983 uprisings.
Funny Boy is a coming-of-age novel by Sri Lankan-Canadian author Shyam Selvadurai. First published by McClelland and Stewart in September 1994, the novel won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction and the Books in Canada First Novel Award.
World Premiere of Funny Boy on CBC and CBC Gem on Friday, December 4 at 8/8:30NT https://cbcgem.ca An adaptation of Shyam Selvadurai's 1994 novel Funny Boy, the film centres on the coming of...
Nov 2, 2020 · Check out the new trailer for Funny Boy! Let us know what you think in the comments below. Visit https://www.fandangonow.com?cmp=Indie_YouTube_DescWant to b...
Dec 10, 2020 · Beginning in Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka, in 1974, two years after the island nation finally shook off British control, “Funny Boy” follows a well-to-do Tamil family and their middle child, eight-year-old Arjie (played first by Nand and then later, when the character is a teenager, by Brandon Ingram ).
A young Tamil boy growing up gay in Sri Lanka during the deadly Tamil-Sinhalese conflict.
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