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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Deepa Mehta's gorgeous adaptation of Shyam Selvadurai's popular novel sets an intimate romance amidst wrenching political turmoil. On the surface, “Funny Boy” has very little to do with the Barbra ...

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 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 ...

Deepa Mehta took Canada to the Oscars in 2006 with Water and she could do it again with Funny Boy. The daring Indian-Canadian director delivers one of her best and most beautiful films yet with 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 ...

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 ...

Overstuffed but absorbing, Deepa Mehta's adaptation of Shyam Selvadurai's novel takes its young Sri Lankan protagonist through several circles of turmoil as civil war brews in the background. “Don’t ...

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 ...