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Sunny Pawar | ... | ||
Abhishek Bharate | ... |
Guddu
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Priyanka Bose | ... |
Kamla
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Khushi Solanki | ... |
Young Shekila
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Shankar Nisode | ... |
Shankar
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Tannishtha Chatterjee | ... |
Noor
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Nawazuddin Siddiqui | ... |
Rawa
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Riddhi Sen | ... |
Café Man
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Koushik Sen | ... |
Police Official
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Rita Boy | ... |
Amita
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Udayshankar Pal | ... |
Liluah Teacher
(as Uday Shankar Paul)
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Surojit Das | ... |
Shonedeep /
Haunted Boy
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Deepti Naval | ... |
Mrs. Sood
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Menik Gooneratne | ... |
Swarmina
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David Wenham | ... |
A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.
This is such a beautiful film, with a simple story line, without any frills.
A young Indian boy leaves their village with his older brother to do some "jobs", in one of these jobs he gets lost and cannot find his way back home. Pass some years and he's adopted by a family from Australia, and when that boy becomes an adult, he starts wondering where he's actually from.
It deals with aspects of origin and identity, and that we cannot escape from who we really are.
Superb, superb acting from everyone, from the little Indian boys, specially Sunny Pawar that plays the young Sarro, to Dev Patel who has clearly matured into a top class act and is endearing and touching playing the older Saroo.
I'm certainly watching it again.