A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia. 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.
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World War II American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people, and becomes the first man in American history to receive the Medal of Honor without firing a shot.
Director:
Mel Gibson
Stars:
Andrew Garfield,
Sam Worthington,
Luke Bracey
In 1986, Saroo was a five-year-old child in India of a poor but happy rural family. On a trip with his brother, Saroo soon finds himself alone and trapped in a moving decommissioned passenger train that takes him to Calcutta, 1500 miles away from home. Now totally lost in an alien urban environment and too young to identify either himself or his home to the authorities, Saroo struggles to survive as a street child until he is sent to an orphanage. Soon, Saroo is selected to be adopted by the Brierley family in Tasmania, where he grows up in a loving, prosperous home. However, for all his material good fortune, Saroo finds himself plagued by his memories of his lost family in his adulthood and tries to search for them even as his guilt drives him to hide this quest from his adoptive parents and his girlfriend. Only when he has an epiphany does he realize not only the answers he needs, but also the steadfast love that he has always had with all his loved ones in both worlds.Written by
Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)
Of the casting of Sunny Pawar as Saroo Brierley, producer Angie Fielder said: "Sunny went from being a young boy who had no idea about acting to a total pro who understood everything about what he was doing and was completely in control of his performance. And I think you can see on screen that he's not wandering around looking at things, he's feeling things. I remember one important scene where Saroo's older brother is arrested and Sunny started crying as we were shooting - they are real tears, there was no make up involved. He was genuinely crying because he was so emotionally involved in the scene." See more »
Goofs
When Saroo is trapped on the train to Calcutta, he is briefly seen near an 'emergency' window with red grilles. Emergency windows were only installed on Indian trains post 2002. See more »
Quotes
Saroo Brierley:
Do you have any idea what it's like knowing my real brother and mother spending every day of their lives looking for me? Huh? How every day my real brother screams my name? Can you imagine the pain they must be in not knowing where I am?
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Crazy Credits
There is no opening title card, only opening credits; the title card doesn't appear until the end. See more »
Rivers of Belief
Written by Cretu/Ciudad/Curly/Farstein
(SonyATV Music Publishing Australia Pty Ltd)
Performed by Enigma
Under License from Virgin Music,
A division of EMI Music Germany GmbH & Co. KG
Licensed courtesy of Universal Music Australia Pty Limited See more »
This is such a beautiful film, with a simple story line, without any frills.
A young Indian boy leaves their village with his older brother to do some "jobs", in one of these jobs he gets lost and cannot find his way back home. Pass some years and he's adopted by a family from Australia, and when that boy becomes an adult, he starts wondering where he's actually from.
It deals with aspects of origin and identity, and that we cannot escape from who we really are.
Superb, superb acting from everyone, from the little Indian boys, specially Sunny Pawar that plays the young Sarro, to Dev Patel who has clearly matured into a top class act and is endearing and touching playing the older Saroo.
I'm certainly watching it again.
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This is such a beautiful film, with a simple story line, without any frills.
A young Indian boy leaves their village with his older brother to do some "jobs", in one of these jobs he gets lost and cannot find his way back home. Pass some years and he's adopted by a family from Australia, and when that boy becomes an adult, he starts wondering where he's actually from.
It deals with aspects of origin and identity, and that we cannot escape from who we really are.
Superb, superb acting from everyone, from the little Indian boys, specially Sunny Pawar that plays the young Sarro, to Dev Patel who has clearly matured into a top class act and is endearing and touching playing the older Saroo.
I'm certainly watching it again.