SUCH A LONG JOURNEY
Deepa Mehta’s latest film Funny Boy is a coming-of-age story of a minority Tamil Christian boy growing up in a Buddhist, Sinhalese-majority Sri Lanka. Set in the 1970s-80s, it explores a Tamil-Sinhalese gay love story at the onset of the 26-year civil war that left about one million Tamils as refugees. A sumptuous period film that is deeply felt, moving and funny, it is Mehta’s finest film yet. The book is an adaptation of Shyam Selvadurai’s 1994 best-selling book, .
