Saroo is taught basic English and moves to Hobart, Tasmania in 1987, under the care of Sue and John Brierley, where he slowly starts to settle into his new lifestyle. After two months of living near the Howrah Bridge, Saroo is taken to the police and placed into an orphanage when authorities are unable to trace his family.Īn advertisement about Saroo is placed in several local newspapers, but no one responds, though an Australian couple has become interested in adopting him. Saroo escapes, sensing that Noor and Rama have sinister intentions, and evades Noor when she chases after him. Saroo continues to wander around the city before meeting Noor, a seemingly friendly woman who takes him back to her apartment and tells him that a man named Rama will help him find his way home. He spends the night in the station with some street children, but is forced to flee when a group of men try to kidnap them. He tries to obtain a ticket home, but the attendant does not recognise the name of his village, which Saroo says is "Ganestalay". After several days the train arrives in faraway Calcutta where Saroo does not understand the local Bengali language. He searches for him on an empty train, only to fall asleep in one of the compartments and awake sometime later to find the train in motion and the doors locked. Saroo accompanies Guddu to work overnight, and they arrive at a nearby train station, where Saroo falls asleep on a bench and is unable to find Guddu upon waking up. Guddu and Saroo steal coal from freight trains to trade for milk and food. In 1986, five-year-old Saroo lives with his elder brother Guddu, his mother, and his baby sister in Khandwa, India. The film was also commercially successful, making $140 million worldwide, becoming one of the highest-grossing Australian films of all time. It won two BAFTA Awards for Best Supporting Actor (Patel) and Best Adapted Screenplay. Lion was well-received by critics, with praise for the acting (particularly from Patel and Kidman), emotional weight, visuals, cinematography and screenplay it received six Oscar nominations at the 89th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Patel), Best Supporting Actress (Kidman), and Best Adapted Screenplay. It was released in Australia on 19 January 2017 and in the United Kingdom on 20 January 2017. The film, which had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on 10 September 2016, was given a limited release in North America on 25 November 2016, by The Weinstein Company before opening generally on 6 January 2017. It is a joint production between Australia and the United Kingdom. It tells the true story of how Brierley, 25 years after being separated from his family in India, sets out to find them. The film stars Dev Patel, Sunny Pawar, Rooney Mara, David Wenham, and Nicole Kidman, as well as Abhishek Bharate, Divian Ladwa, Priyanka Bose, Deepti Naval, Tannishtha Chatterjee, and Nawazuddin Siddiqui. Lion is a 2016 Australian biographical drama film directed by Garth Davis (in his feature directorial debut) from a screenplay by Luke Davies based on the 2013 non-fiction book A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley.
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