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 ...

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 ...

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 ...