He falls asleep again, in one of the compartments, and wakes up to find the train in motion, with no one on-board, and the door locked from the outside.Īfter a couple of days, he finds himself in faraway Calcutta, where he doesn't understand the local Bengali language.

When Guddu does not return till late, Saroo searches for him, and boards a train, presuming Guddu is aboard.

One day Saroo follows his brother to a late-night foray, and they arrive at a nearby train station, where Saroo decides to stay back and take a nap. Guddu and Saroo steal coal from freight trains, to afford milk and food. In 1986, Saroo (Sunny Pawar), the 5-year old son of a doting stone-quarry labourer mother (Priyanka Bose), lives with his elder brothers Guddu (Abhishek Bharate) and Kallu, and younger sister Shekila, in a village in Khandwa, Central India. Which of the six Oscar nominations will it win at the 89 th Academy Awards? And what inspired an Screen Australia to make a film on the life of a Khandwa (Madhya Pradesh) born little boy, who found himself alone on the merciless by-lanes of Calcutta, 1,600 km away from home, in 1986? It is neither a Disney-inspired cartoon, nor the story of a real lion (captive or free), nor about any lion-hearted human, not even about the Lions Club! So, don’t be confused by the title, which is a semi-literal translation of Sheru, the birth-name of the lead character, and do see this heartfelt bio-pic, among the best of the year.įrom a Golden Lion, at Cannes, in 2008, to this rivetting feature-film debut, eight years later, director Garth Davis, has, indeed come ‘a Long Way Home’, not unlike the title of the autobiography the movie is based on. All those who frown upon technology as the bane of the 21 st century, here’s a glorious tribute to the great service it can and is meant to render, and does, as evidenced in the film.įor a rather well-made film, based on a true story, the makers have done disservice to their cause by naming it Lion. Lion is the tale of mothers and sons, brothers and sisters, separation and unification, brimming with humanity, and yet not fighting shy of tilting the camera down, to capture the grim realities of crime and perversion in a cruel and miserable world.

Siraj Syed reviews Lion: Soaring emotions, roaring cinema

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