It is a coming of age story about a wealthy Tamil boy growing up in Sri Lanka’s former capital, Colombo. Main character Arjie’s life was far removed from my reality as a Scarborough-born, lower middle-class Tamil boy. For a long time I thought I was the only Tamil queer boy, that queerness in any form was only for white people to experience. That amongst the conversations of genocide, war and displacement, there were also queer Tamil people facing battles nobody spoke of. She goes on to say that it was difficult to find openly queer Tamil actors or Tamil actors who would take on queer roles.

Source: thestar November 20, 2020 19:43 UTC