Due for release on Netflix on Thursday 10 December is Funny Boy     Shivantha Wijesinha   Due for release on Netflix on Thursday 10 December is Funny Boy, a feature movie based on the novel of the same name by Shyam Selvadurai, son of Ceylon tennis champion of yesteryear D.D.N. Selvadurai. The film was produced by world-famous Indo-Canadian director and screenwriter Deepa Mehta, best known for her critically acclaimed trilogy of movies comprising Fire, Earth, and Water. Funny Boy was shot on location in Sri Lanka, with a cast including Shivantha Wijesinha, Brandon Ingram, Tracy Holsinger and Nimmi Harasgama, the latter noted for her performances in the British-produced TV series The Good Karma Hospital, also filmed in Sri Lanka. Shivantha Wijesinha did his high school and university education in Melbourne, where he also began his acting career with roles in local TV productions such as Kath & Kim and The Librarians, as well as a few TV commercials produced in Victoria. ...

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Deepa Mehta’s Movie ‚Funny Boy‘ to premiere in December – by Dr. Sanjiva Wijesinha Source:Sanjiva Wijesinha I am delighted to be able to report that the iconic Oscar nominated Canadian film-maker Deepa Mehta’s latest film, an adaptation of Shyam Selvadurai’s novel Funny Boy, will premiere on Netflix in the first week of December. The rights to the movie have just been bought by Ava DuVernay’s ARRAY Releasing, Shyam Selvadurai‘s debut novel was published in 1994 and set in Sri Lanka during the turbulent nineteen seventies and eighties. It opened up new ground in its portrayal of the sexual awakening of a young boy Arjie (portrayed as a small child by Arush Nand and as a teenager by Brandon Ingram). It is said that Arjie is a semi-autobiographical representation of Selvadurai himself.   ...

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