"As an a young adult, Arjie (Ingram) begins to come to term with his queerness through a romance with a fellow student Shehan (Mudannayake), who is Sinhalese, their illicit love affair is cocooned by their up-middle class privileges, even when Arjie's family finds out their tryst, they have more imperative decisions to make (like acting immediately to save their own skins) than telling off a gay son. Eventually, FUNNY BOY lands its feet on a bland note, all we are presented is a mediocre Bildungsroman story (albeit good-natured) scarred by the political turmoil on which Mehta opts not to expound, as if the film's selfless aim is to whet our interest to Selvadurai's novel."
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read my full review on my blog: Cinema Omnivore, thanks.