Funny Boy (2020)
Love was an act of war.
A student must navigate issues of sexuality, identity and family amid Sri Lanka's social turmoil of the 1970s and 1980s.
- Date of release
- 2020-11-27
- TMDB
- 5.4 / 10 (9)
- Runtime
- 1h 49m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Deepa Mehta
Casting
- Arush Nand — Young Arjie
- Brandon Ingram — Teenage Arjie
- Nimmi Harasgama
- Ali Kazmi — Appa
- Agam Darshi
- Seema Biswas
- Rehan Mudannayake — Shehan
- Shivantha Wijesinha
- Bandhuka Premawardhana — Chellaiah
Interesting facts
Funny Boy is a 2020 drama film, directed by Deepa Mehta. 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 people before the breakout of the Sri Lankan Civil War.
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