Lion (2016 film)
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| Directed by | Garth Davis |
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| Screenplay by | Luke Davies |
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A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley Larry Buttrose |
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| Cinematography | Greig Fraser |
| Edited by | Alexandre de Franceschi |
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| Budget | $12 million |
| Box office | $21.6 million |
Lion is a 2016 drama film directed by Garth Davis in his feature debut and written by Luke Davies, based on the non-fiction book A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley with Larry Buttrose. The film stars Dev Patel, Rooney Mara, David Wenham, Nicole Kidman, Abhishek Bharate, Divian Ladwa, Priyanka Bose, Deepti Naval, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Sunny Pawar.
The film, which had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 10, 2016, was released in a limited release on November 25, 2016, by The Weinstein Company before opening wide on January 6, 2017. It was released in Australia on January 19, 2017 and in the United Kingdom on January 20, 2017.
Saroo (Sunny Pawar) follows his brother Guddu (Abhisek Bharate) to work and they arrive at a train station, where Saroo stays and awaits Guddu's return. When Guddu does not return, Saroo searches for him and boards a train. He falls asleep again and wakes to find the train moving. Several days later, Saroo alights at the next stop and finds himself in Calcutta, a faraway city where the language spoken, Bengali, is unfamiliar to Saroo. Saroo spends the night in the train station with a group of kids and is forced to leave in the morning when a group of adults attempt to abduct them.
Saroo continues to wander around the town before coming across Noor (Tannishtha Chatterjee), a friendly woman who brings him back to her apartment, where she feeds and bathes him. She tells Saroo that she and a man, Rama (Nawazuddin Siddiqui), will help him find his way home the next day. Sensing something amiss, Saroo runs away and successfully escapes Noor when she pursues him. A man (Riddhi Sen) eventually brings Saroo to the police, who place him in an orphanage. He begins a friendship in the orphanage with a girl named Amita (Rita Boy). Saroo asks if she has ever seen anybody leave the orphanage; she tells him she has. Three months later, Saroo is brought to Mrs. Sood (Deepti Naval), who informs Saroo she had placed an advertisement in a widely-read newspaper to see if anybody would claim him, but no one did. She then tells him that an Australian couple, Sue (Nicole Kidman) and John (David Wenham), have adopted him. She begins to teach Saroo English and he moves to Australia thereafter under the care of Sue and John. Another adopted kid, Mantosh (Keshav Jadhav), has trouble adjusting to his new home and self-abuses. Twenty years later, Saroo (Dev Patel) heads to Melbourne to study hotel management.
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