Funny Boy is a 2020 drama film, directed by Deepa Mehta. [1] 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 ...

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 .

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.

Dec 10, 2020 · A coming-of-age story set in Sri Lanka during the leadup to the decades-long Sri Lankan Civil War, “Funny Boy” is strongest when it considers how heteronormative gender roles and patriarchal thinking quash individual desire and expression.

Funny Boy may refer to: Funny Boy, a 1994 novel by Shyam Selvadurai; Funny Boy, a 2020 Canadian drama film adaptation of the Selvadurai novel directed by Deepa Mehta; Funny Boy, a French film directed by Christian Le Hémonet

Jan 1, 2001 · Wonderful first novel from 1994 and recent Netflix movie. Funny Boy is the story of young boy Arjie and his coming out against the background of the Tamil/Sinhalese civil war in Sri Lanka in the 1980s and eventual escape as a refugee to Canada.

Funny Boy is a story about a seven-year-old boy Arjun (Arjie) who goes on to experience not only the ups and downs that accompany the discovery of one’s sexuality, but also the harsh reality of the real world.

Dec 10, 2020 · Deepa Mehta’s sprawling coming-of-age drama follows a boy who realizes he is gay in a country that criminalizes homosexuality.

Dec 10, 2020 · Shot on location and set in Sri Lanka in the 1970’s and 80’s, Funny Boy explores the awakening of sexual identity by a young boy named Arjie.