Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On the surface, "Funny Boy" has very little to do with the Barbra Streisand musical its title is riffing on. The story of a fey ...

The film tells a story of awakening sexual identity against the backdrop of Sri Lanka’s most turbulent periods. Acquired by Ava DuVernay’s ARRAY Releasing earlier this month, Deepa Mehta‘s “Funny Boy, ...

'Funny Boy', Canada’s Oscar entry for best international feature, is a gay coming-of-ager set in the lead-up to the civil war in Sri Lanka, directed by Deepa Mehta ('Water'). By Deborah Young If there ...

In the opening pages of the 1994 Canadian novel Funny Boy, a young Sri Lankan boy named Arjie refuses to play cricket with the boys as his father insists. He’d rather bedazzle in bridal reds and join ...

Deepa Mehta‘s “Funny Boy” will no longer compete in the Academy Awards’ international feature film category and will instead be submitted for consideration in the best picture and general entry ...

For me, growing up in Sri Lanka during a civil war was a surreal experience. One of the most groundbreaking books that I loved that captured the complexities of the moment, was Funny Boy by acclaimed ...

Deepa Mehta’s latest film, an adaptation of Shyam Selvadurai’s Sri Lanka-set coming-of-age novel “Funny Boy,” has been picked up by Ava DuVernay’s ARRAY Releasing, and will land on Netflix this ...

Canada has picked Deepa Mehta’s Funny Boy, an adaptation of Shyam Selvadurai’s coming-of-age novel of the same name, to represent the country in the 2021 Oscar race in the international feature ...

When Deepa Mehta makes a new film, there’s bound to be tension. Not behind-the-scenes personality scuffle type of tension. More like receiving death threats kind of tension. Productions by the ...

Deepa Mehta’s sprawling coming-of-age drama follows a boy who realizes he is gay in a country that criminalizes homosexuality. By Ben Kenigsberg When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...

Arush Nand plays the young Arjie at his make-believe wedding in Funny Boy. In the opening pages of the 1994 Canadian novel Funny Boy, a young Sri Lankan boy named Arjie refuses to play cricket with ...