Country:Canada, United States
Runtime:109 min
Released:10 Dec 2020
Plot: Funny Boy 2020 Sri Lanka of the 70s and 80s The elegant world of upper class Tamils, a minority group in a largely majority Sinhalese country At 8, Arjie loves dressing up like a bride and acting out a bridal procession with his girl cousins When he is discovered by the adults, he wonders why hes being called funny, a word whose meaning he cant understand, though he knows its a bad thing Arjie is taken up by his magnetic aunt Radha, who has just returned from Canada Radha sees that Arjie is gay and is determined to protect him and build his self worth But her life gets complicated when she falls in love with Anil, a charismatic Sinhalese man Their relationship crosses ethnic boundaries in a world that simmers with tensions between the Sinhalese and Tamils Radha must choose between her family and her lover Arjie, witnessing his aunts journey, learns some bitter lessons about what is possible and not in the world We flash forward to Arjie at 17, at a new school There, Arjie falls in love with Shehan, a Sinhalese Meanwhile, the ethnic tension spills over into civil war, during which the family end up fleeing to Canada as refugees Arjie now is free to pursue his sexual proclivities homosexuality is still illegal in Sri Lanka But freedom comes at a price The price is the preconceptions a white society has about coloured people On one level, Funny Boy is a coming of age love story and on another, a film about oppression of minorities, whether it is race, culture or sexuality
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