Saroo, who only speaks Hindi, ends up in a part of India where the dominant language is Bengali. While looking for his brother, Saroo accidentally ends up on an empty passenger train that begins moving, and goes on for days. Saroo drops off to sleep, but when he wakes up, Guddu has not returned. One day, after much begging from Saroo, Guddu brings him along on a trek to find work and tells him to stay on a bench at a railway station while he sorts out some details. Sunny Pawar and Abhishek Bharate in Lion. His mother is a day laborer, and the family subsists near the edge of poverty. Lion is based on a true, incredible storyĪs the film opens, tiny Saroo (the outstanding Sunny Pawar) lives with his beloved mother, younger sister, and older brother Guddu ( Abhishek Bharate), whom he idolizes. It’s the kind of inspirational movie even a film snob could love. Lion is moving, beautifully shot, and clear-eyed about its aims. Lion has all those things, but director Garth Davis, working with a screenplay by Luke Davies, pulls off something much better. ![]() ![]() The Hollywood temptation in adapting material like Brierley’s life for the screen is to make a fairly standard inspirational movie about the power of the human spirit. ![]() Brierley wrote about his life story in his memoir, A Long Way Home, and now it’s been turned into Lion. It sounds like the machinations of a product-placement genius, but it actually happened.
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