DEADLINE: How do you think ARRAY’S mission aligns with Funny Boy? DEEPA MEHTA: Bertolt Brecht famously said, “Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.” ...

Funny Boy', Canada’s Oscar entry for best ... Tamil background is threatened when she falls for a Sinhalese boy in her theater group. Granny (Seema Biswas) won’t have it, and in a funny ...

In the opening pages of the 1994 Canadian novel Funny Boy, a young Sri Lankan boy named ... seafront tropical landscape of Sri Lanka — a group of girls run across the screen, with Arjie's ...

Queeries is a weekly column by CBC Arts producer Peter Knegt that queries LGBTQ art, culture and/or identity ... on one of the short stories in Funny Boy." Deepa Mehta and Shyam Selvadurai on ...

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 ...

“Funny Boy,” released by Ava DuVernay’s Array, is streaming on Netflix. Mehta, who has filmed a couple of other movies in Sri Lanka, loved the book by Shyam Selvadurai, a gay coming of age s ...

Acquired by Ava DuVernay’s ARRAY Releasing earlier this month, Deepa Mehta‘s “Funny Boy,” an adaptation of Shyam Selvadurai’s 1994 novel of the same name, has been announced as Canada ...

When Sri Lankan Canadian writer Shyam Selvadurai published his coming-of-age novel Funny Boy in 1994 ... was of the same “enemy” ethnic group. With so much going on – ethnic tensions ...