Explore the must-watch Tamil movies of 2025, including blockbusters, sleeper hits, and hidden gems like Coolie, Dragon, Tourist Family, and Kiss.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Going viral within hours of creation, these memes are sometimes what make a bad day good, for some of us. Of late in Tamil Nadu, memes of politicians have become extremely popular, and scarcely does a ...