![]() ![]() The main cast (Brandon Ingram, Nimmi Harasgama, Ali Kazmi, Agam Darshi, Seema Biswas, Shivantha Wijesinha) playing Tamil characters are mostly Sinhalese (Sri Lanka’s majority population) and North Indian. ![]() The film covers the social and political tensions that built up to 1983’s Black July, an anti-Tamil pogrom that killed hundreds to thousands and incited the war that would claim hundreds of thousands more.īut despite a delicate hand in drawing out why hundreds of thousands of Tamils ended up as refugees in Canada, there has been growing pushback against the movie. That has inspired a certain protective instinct when it comes to the soon-to-be-released movie adaptation.ĭirector Deepa Mehta’s Funny Boy, which is currently schedule to open in select theatres across Canada on Friday before landing on CBC and CBC Gem on December 4, is a remarkably sensitive and balanced handling of Selvadurai’s novel. Written by Toronto-based Shyam Selvadurai, who is a half-Tamil and half-Sinhalese gay man, Funny Boy is the rare fiction that spoke truths about the queer Tamil experience, but also connected to wider refugee and immigrant experiences.įor a Tamil diaspora escaping an ethnic war in Sri Lanka and feeling alienated in our new homes, Selvadurai’s debut novel was our only representation in the broader culture. The 1994 novel is a coming-of-age story about a young boy named Arjie, who, despite coming from a wealthy Colombo family, is doubly oppressed in Sri Lanka for being queer and Tamil. The Tamil community holds Funny Boy dear. Brandon Ingram stars as Arjie in Funny Boy. ![]()
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