The Tamil community holds Funny Boy dear. The 1994 novel is a coming-of-age story about a young boy named Arjie, who, despite coming from a wealthy Colombo family, is doubly oppressed in Sri Lanka for ...

When Academy Award nominee Deepa Mehta's adaptation of Funny Boy — the much-lauded story about a gay young man coming of age before and during the Sri Lankan civil war — was announced as Canada's ...

Tamil director CS Amudhan is back with the same question he had asked in 2010 when he made Thamizh Padam: Are the Tamil film industry and fans ready to laugh at themselves (again)? Going by the teaser ...

One of the things that is abundantly clear in “Funny Boy” is that identity is complicated. In this gay coming-of-age story set during the lead-up to the Sri Lankan civil war, director Deepa Mehta ...

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 ...