Sri lanka jokes movie5/25/2023 ![]() In this gay coming-of-age story set during the lead-up to the Sri Lankan civil war, director Deepa Mehta ambitiously juxtaposes a teenage love story with rising political tensions and ethnic violence in a film that is ultimately about thriving and sometimes just surviving as someone deemed “different.”īased on the Lambda Award-winning 1994 novel by Sri Lankan Canadian author Shyam Selvadurai, who also co-wrote the adaptation with Mehta, “Funny Boy” is Canada’s official selection to compete in the international feature category at the 2021 Academy Awards. One of the things that is abundantly clear in “Funny Boy” is that identity is complicated.
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