Ali Kazmi’s ‘Funny Boy’ has made it to the nominations for Oscars 2021. Canada nominated the film for the ‘Best International Film‘ category.
The production company behind the indie film, Hamilton-Mehta films, announced that Funny Boy has been selected as Canada’s official entry for the Best International Feature Film category at the 93rd Academy Awards.
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The movie is directed by Indo-Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta. Pakistani artist Ali Kazmi essays a pivotal role in the movie. The rest of the Funny Boy cast includes Nimmi Harasgama, Ali Kazmi, Agam Darshi, Seema Biswas, Rehan Mudannayake, and Shivantha Wijesinha.
Filmmaker Mehar Jaffri was a production manager for the movie produced by David Hamilton.
About Funny Boy
The film is based on a book by the same title, written by Shyam Selvadurai. The story follows a teen boy exploring his feelings for a male classmate amid the 1983 Tamil uprising in Sri Lanka. For authenticity, the movie was filmed in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
The setting is amid the premise of the country’s civil war as political clashes between Sinhalese and Tamil ethnic communities escalated.
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