Funny Boy is a 2020 English-language Drama motion picture featuring Rehan Mudannayake, Arush Nand, Brandon Ingram, Nimmi Harasgama, Ali Kazmi, Agam Darshi and Dmitri Gunatilake. Funny Boy was Produced by David Hamilton. The movie is directed by Deepa Mehta. ARRAY acquired the distribution rights for the movie. Funny Boy was released on 4th December 2020 in English , Sinhala and Tamil languages. The screenplay for the movie was written by Deepa Mehta and Shyam Selvadurai. Cinematography was done by Douglas Koch and editing by Teresa Font. The music was composed by Howard Shore.
Funny Boy Reviews and Ratings
Average Review Rating : 4.6/5
Positive Review Rating : 69%
Funny Boy ambitiously braids internal and external conflict, familial and national strife, to engrossing if somewhat heavily condensed effect. ( Read More )
Screen Daily
Funny Boy certainly couldnt be considered hard edged art cinema, its mainstream polish arguably helping its harsher content slip down a little too smoothly. ( Read More )
In the end the story is told rather blandly, the edges sentimentally smoothed down. ( Read More )
Potentially, theres a third forbidden love story hidden between the lines. ( Read More )
The Times
Worst of all, it soft sells the horror of ethnic cleansing, with a climactic neighbourhood massacre reduced to a few broken windows and some offensive chanting. ( Read More )