Brandon Ingram stars as Arjie in Funny Boy. The Tamil community holds Funny Boy dear. The 1994 novel is a coming-of-age story about a young boy named Arjie, who, despite coming from a wealthy Colombo ...

When Academy Award nominee Deepa Mehta's adaptation of Funny Boy — the much-lauded story about a gay young man coming of age before and during the Sri Lankan civil war — was announced as Canada's ...

People from the Tamil diaspora are calling for a boycott of the queer coming-of-age movie Funny Boy. The uproar stems from Toronto-based filmmaker Deepa Mehta’s decision not to cast Tamil actors in ...

Queeries is a weekly column by CBC Arts producer Peter Knegt that queries LGBTQ art, culture and/or identity through a personal lens. The film — like the book — follows Arjie Chelvaratnam, a young ...