The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has disqualified Canada's entry for best international feature Oscar consideration, Deepa Mehta's Funny Boy, for having too much dialogue in English. By ...

In the first trailer for “Funny Boy,” which is directed by Deepa Mehta and is released by Ava DuVernay’s ARRAY, we explore the sexual awakening of a young boy in 1970s and ’80s Sri Lanka just as ...

Canada has picked Deepa Mehta’s Funny Boy, an adaptation of Shyam Selvadurai’s coming-of-age novel of the same name, to represent the country in the 2021 Oscar race in the international feature ...

America, it's finally time for us to stop making fun of Canada. What did our northern neighbors ever do to us to deserve this perpetual ridicule? Sure, they have funny accents and apologize too much, ...

Overstuffed but absorbing, Deepa Mehta's adaptation of Shyam Selvadurai's novel takes its young Sri Lankan protagonist through several circles of turmoil as civil war brews in the background. “Don’t ...

Deepa Mehta‘s “Funny Boy” will represent Canada in the race for best international feature film at the 2021 Oscars. Based on the best-selling novel by Shyam Selvadurai, the film follows a young boy’s ...

Canada comprises around 16,000 islands and encompasses nearly 9.09 million square kilometers. After Russia, it has the second largest surface area in the world. With deposits of gold, nickel, copper ...