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Funny Boy (horse)
Funny Boy may refer to: * ''Funny Boy'' (novel), a 1994 novel by Shyam Selvadurai * ''Funny Boy'' (film), a 2020 Canadian drama film adaptation of the Selvadurai novel directed by Deepa Mehta * ''Funny Boy'' (1987 film), a French film directed by Christian Le Hémonet {{dab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Funny Boy (novel)
''Funny Boy'' is a coming-of-age novel by Sri Lankan-Canadian author Shyam Selvadurai. First published by McClelland and Stewart in September 1994, the novel won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction and the Books in Canada First Novel Award. Set in Sri Lanka where Selvadurai grew up, ''Funny Boy'' is constructed in the form of six poignant stories about a boy coming to age within a wealthy Tamil family in Colombo. Between the ages of seven and fourteen, he explores his sexual identity, and encounters the Sinhala-Tamil tensions leading up to the 1983 riots. Background The novel presents vivid sketches of family members, friends, school teachers, shown co-operating, arguing, loving, and living. The large Tamil family, and its arguments and discussions reflect a specific culture, while in many aspects the problems are universal. Tension mounts as the riots come closer to home, and the whole family sleeps in their shoes so they can quickly escape should the Sinhalese mobs d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Funny Boy (film)
''Funny Boy'' is a 2020 drama film, directed by Deepa Mehta. An adaptation of Shyam Selvadurai's 1994 novel of the same name, the film centres on the coming of age of Arjie Chelvaratnam, a young Tamil boy in Sri Lanka who is coming to terms with his homosexuality against the backdrop of the increased tensions between Tamil and Sinhalese people before the breakout of the Sri Lankan Civil War. Shot on location in Chennai and Colombo, the film stars Arush Nand as Arjie in childhood and Brandon Ingram as Arjie in his teenage years, as well as Nimmi Harasgama, Ali Kazmi, Agam Darshi, Seema Biswas, Rehan Mudannayake and Shivantha Wijesinha. Its production was first announced in 2018. The film will have a theatrical release in Canada and selected cities in the United States, and will be distributed internationally via Netflix. The movie rights for the United States have been acquired by Ava DuVernay’s ARRAY Releasing who will handle worldwide distribution. It was broadcast Dece ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Funny Boy (1987 Film)
Funny Boy may refer to: * ''Funny Boy'' (novel), a 1994 novel by Shyam Selvadurai * ''Funny Boy'' (film), a 2020 Canadian drama film adaptation of the Selvadurai novel directed by Deepa Mehta * ''Funny Boy'' (1987 film), a French film directed by Christian Le Hémonet {{dab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |