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"Funny Boy is a film bursting with powerful performances, particularly Agam Darshi as Radha, Nimmi Harasgama as Arjie's mother, who is sympathetic to the Tamil cause, and Arush Nand and Brandon Ingram as the young and old Arjie respectively. However, in concentrating on performances, Mehta abandons any semblance of accurate Tamil-language diction during the film's Tamil dialogue segments, and the language is mangled in a variety of ways. While this will not be an issue for those relying on subtitles, for those who know the language it will be a major one, detracting from what is otherwise a fine piece of work—though a Tamil language redub is understood to be in the works."
-- Naman Ramachandran

Source:
Ramachandran, Naman. "Funny Boy watches Sri Lanka's battle lines from the social uplands." Review of Funny Boy. Sight & Sound, December 11, 2020.