He’s from Calcutta, no, he’s adopted from… he isn’t quite sure.
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Saroo (Oscar-hopeful Patel) comes swimming out the ocean, now a handsome, chilled Aussie who, when asked was he born in Australia, nods and then corrects himself. Finally, he is ‘saved’ and a new life, a new family awaits him in Tasmania, Australia. Hungry, alone, never more vulnerable, Saroo slips away from one dark fate after another (kind strangers with orange pop are not always to be trusted, and police don’t take the cigarette from their lips as kidnapper’s rush pass them). The nightmare two-day ride takes him to Calcutta – a city he doesn’t speak the language. This is the rag part of the story, but the tragedy never lies in the abject poverty of the family, that comes when Saroo is torn away from home on a high-speed passenger train (kids never do stay put when you tell them to). Five-year-old Saroo (Sunny Pawar, giving a powerful debut) helps his mother collect rocks and steals coals with his brother.
#Lion a long way home trailer movie
Lion, nominated for 6 Oscars including best picture, is something different.īased on the memoirs of Saroo Brierley’s “ A Long Way Home” here we have a movie that isn’t afraid to show the suffering of an over-flowing population. Slumdog Millionaire (which shot Dev Patel into the limelight) showed an enchanting, Bollywood-dancing India, likewise - and cementing his box-office career - was tourist-friendly The Best Marigold Hotel.
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The story of rags to riches is normally an uplifting, crowd-pleasing one.
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Starring Dev Patel, Rooney Mara & Nicole Kidman