Howe Records will release a soundtrack album for the drama Funny Boy. The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award winner Howard Shore (The Lord of the Rings, The Silence of the Lambs, The Aviator, Hugo, The Hobbit, Ed Wood, Mrs. Doubtfire). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, December 10 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and other digital music stores. Funny Boy is co-written and directed by Deepa Mehta and stars Brandon Ingram, Nimmi Harasgama, Ali Kazmi, Rehan Mudannayake, Agam Darshi, Shivantha Wijesinha, Arush Nand, Ruvin De Silva, Hidaayath Hazeer and Seema Biswas. The movie based on the best-selling Canadian novel of the same title by Shyam Selvadurai is set in Sri Lanka in the 1970’s and 80’s and explores the awakening of sexual identity by a young boy and chronicles his struggle to find balance and self-love despite the absence of empathy and understanding.
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Howard Shore Scoring Deepa Mehta’s ‘Funny Boy’
Howard Shore (The Lord of the Rings, The Aviator, The Silence of the Lambs, The Departed, Hugo, The Hobbit) has revealed on the latest episode of Score: The Podcast that he has completed his score for the upcoming drama Funny Boy. The film directed by Deepa Mehta (Water, Earth, Fire, Beeba Boys) is based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Arjie Chelvaratnam and tells the story a young boy coming to terms with his sexual identity just as political tensions escalate in Sri Lanka in the years leading up to the 1983 riots. Chelvaratnam also wrote the screenplay.