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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. India-born Deepa Mehta, director of the Canadian drama film “Funny Boy,” co-wrote the script based on the popular 1994 novel by ...

'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 ...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has disqualified Canada's entry for best international feature Oscar consideration, Deepa Mehta's Funny Boy, for having too much dialogue in English. By ...

Ava DuVernay‘s ARRAY Releasing has acquired the highly-anticipated dramatic feature Funny Boy directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Deepa Mehta. The film is based on the best-selling Canadian novel by ...

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, ...

The first trailer for Deepa Mehta’s forthcoming coming-of-age drama Funny Boy debuted today after it was announced that it would be Canada’s official selection for Best International Feature Film for ...

India-born Deepa Mehta, director of the Canadian drama film “Funny Boy,” co-wrote the script based on the popular 1994 novel by Shyam Selvadurai about the coming of age of a gay Tamil youth in Sri ...

Funny Boy tells Arjie's coming of age story as a privileged Tamil young man against the backdrop of the late 1970s and 1980s, as ethnic tensions between Sri Lanka's Sinhalese majority and Tamil ...