![]() As the new film adaptation opens with the sound of the ocean - establishing the lush seafront tropical landscape of Sri Lanka - a group of girls run across the screen, with Arjie's veil billowing in the wind, gender non-conforming and proudly leading the way.įunny Boy is directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Deepa Mehta, who has previously explored what it means to be an outsider in South Asian culture in a trilogy of acclaimed and controversial historical dramas: Fire, Earth and Water. Novelist Shyam Selvadurai's gay coming of age novel became a critical and commercial sensation in Canada when it was first published, enduring as a pioneering story of queerness, politics, and South Asian history. He'd rather bedazzle in bridal reds and join the girls' make-believe wedding. In the opening pages of the 1994 Canadian novel Funny Boy, a young Sri Lankan boy named Arjie refuses to play cricket with the boys as his father insists. Arush Nand plays the young Arjie at his make-believe wedding in Funny Boy.
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