However plenty of information on the film and video clips are available on-line. Netflix announced its release on 10 December, but I failed to get it on screen so far. The film was released on December 4, 2020. Shyam wrote the film script and many of the actors are local with a few of the major roles portrayed by Indian actors. Filming was on location in Sri Lanka in 2020, completed around October. Producers are her husband, David Hamilton and Howard Shore.
She had to shift to our country due to protests in India and even the burning of the sets that had been erected for filming. Direction is by famed, many awards winning Indian Canadian Deepa Mehta who is familiar with Sri Lanka having filmed the second of her elements trilogy ‘Water’ with a few Sri Lankan actors and discovering a fine child to play the pivotal role of the very young widow in the story. I speak of the release, attracting the world’s art and film attention, of Shyam Selvadorai’s early, acclaimed 1994 autobiographical novel ‘Funny Boy’ which won the Books in Canada First Novel Award. Here is another film success story and this time it is more relevant to us Sri Lankans, so celebration is called for any optimistic silver lining being welcome in these dark days of fear of infection.
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