Key to Arjie’s growth is his relationship with his aunt, Radha, played by Canada’s Agam Darshi. Never one to shy away from controversy, Mehta’s film explores how oppression infiltrates marginalized classes as Arjie’s Tamil family struggles to embrace him, failing to recognize how they enforce the same prejudices of which they are targets. The story unfolds against the backdrop of the nation’s civil war, which erupted in the violent Black July siege in which the Sinhalese majority targeted the Tamil minority. Funny Boy, which is Canada’s official selection in the Oscar race for best international feature film, is the story of Arjie, a young Tamil man coming of age and coming out of the closet in Sri Lanka in the early 1980s. The daring Indian-Canadian director delivers one of her best and most beautiful films yet with this adaptation of Shyam Selvadurai’s acclaimed 1994 novel. Deepa Mehta took Canada to the Oscars in 2006 with Water and she could do it again with Funny Boy.
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