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In Kenya, when young Tina befriends a lion and embraces local customs, her mother summons Tina's American father to help bring Tina back to civilization and give her a civilized upbringing. King : [Saves Tina's life from lioness]. Tina : [King comes to Tina] King! I knew you loved me. You saw King chose me. He's mine!

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A five-year-old Indian boy is adopted by an Australian couple after getting lost hundreds of kilometers from home. Saroo Brierley : I'm sorry you couldn't have your own kids. Sue Brierley : What are you saying? Saroo Brierley : We Like your own would have been. You weren't just adopting us but our past as well. I feel like we're killing you. Sue Brierley : I could have had kids. Saroo Brierley : What? Sue Brierley : We chose not to have kids. We wanted the two of you. That's what we wanted.

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Sign In. Edit Lion Directed by Garth Davis Young Saroo Abhishek Bharate Guddu Priyanka Bose Kamla Khushi Solanki Young Shekila Shankar Nisode Shankar Tannishtha Chatterjee Noor Nawazuddin Siddiqui Rama Riddhi Sen

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The audience fills the frame with dangers of our own making, crowding in on the little lost figure at the centre of the shot. From the moment director Garth Davis places his camera high above a desolate railway station to capture five-year-old Saroo the remarkable Sunny Pawar , vulnerable and separated from his older brother, we are emotionally snared by this story. Davis, a first-time feature director with a background in commercials and television Top of the Lake , delivers a confident debut. Accompanying his older brother to work on a station one night, Saroo falls asleep on a bench. His search leads him on to an empty train, where he dozes off again. But the train is decommissioned and Saroo wakes again to find himself stuck in a carriage on a speeding train that takes him 1,km from home, to Kolkata. Speaking Hindi rather than Bengali, he nonetheless quickly learns the rules of survival from watching other street children. One of them mutely passes him a piece of torn cardboard to sleep on. Although the kids are driven that night from their patch by police, Saroo goes back later to collect his cardboard and carries it, neatly folded under his arm, his one and only possession. A bulked-up Dev Patel deploys star-making charisma in the role of Saroo as an adult, shaped more by his loving adoptive family and an outdoorsy Tasmanian childhood than by his early trauma.

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It's the story of my life. Even the love scenes made me wonder if Mara wasn't still under the influence of her previous romance in "Carol". Create a list ». Sunny Pawar Young Saroo. User reviews 23 Review. He makes his way to where he used to live and sees it's now used as a pen for goats. During the closing credits, we see footage of the real Saroo introducing the real John and Sue Brierley to his birth mother in the Khandwa Village. Dev Patel is quite good as adult Saroo, although to me he doesn't resemble the boy Saroo , and his Australian accent is great. Sign In. Bharat Arka Das Rooney Mara Lucy.

Lion is a Australian biographical drama film directed by Garth Davis in his feature directorial debut from a screenplay by Luke Davies based on the non-fiction book A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley. It tells the true story of how Brierley, 25 years after being separated from his family in India , sets out to find them. It was a joint production between Australia and the United Kingdom.

It is a memory I will never forget. Trailer This film is an emotional true story set in the mid 's, based on the novel "A long way home". But as a friend points out, there are many water towers in India near railway stations. Along the credits, the footage of the real characters in India will make many eyes brimming with tears. They return to their village and find their little sister, Shekila and their mother Kamla. Create account. The child Saroo is not overly cute or streetwise; but he has just enough luck and instinct to survive - I love the scene where he sneaks in to an outdoor shrine at night and steals some food offerings after making the prayer sign while everyone is sleeping. I thought that the first half of the movie was nothing short of riveting, if heartbreaking, but the second half of the movie is too obvious and predictive too keep my attention all the way through. So be prepared. Staff Picks: What to Watch in March. He tells Noor that Saroo is the exact type of boy that they are looking for. It's a very compelling story. The way she looks at her sons, shows you how a mother pours her heart with love when she looks at her children.