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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 | ... |
In 1986, Saroo was a five-year-old child in India of a poor but happy rural family. On a trip with his brother, Saroo soon finds himself alone and trapped in a moving decommissioned passenger train that takes him to Calcutta, 1500 miles away from home. Now totally lost in an alien urban environment and too young to identify either himself or his home to the authorities, Saroo struggles to survive as a street child until he is sent to an orphanage. Soon, Saroo is selected to be adopted by the Brierley family in Tasmania, where he grows up in a loving, prosperous home. However, for all his material good fortune, Saroo finds himself plagued by his memories of his lost family in his adulthood and tries to search for them even as his guilt drives him to hide this quest from his adoptive parents and his girlfriend. Only when he has an epiphany does he realize not only the answers he needs, but also the steadfast love that he has always had with all his loved ones in both worlds. Written by Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers,com)
May I start this off by saying that I'm astonished at the extremely unfair negative, even 'mixed' reviews the film has gotten so far... The film is not even remotely close to being average, it's far, far, beyond magnificent.
By now you probably know the synopsis, so I'll add for those who haven't seen the film that it's visually stunning, the acting is superb (special mention to phenomenal newcomer Sunny Pawar, who plays 5 year old Saroo) and the story is so gripping and moving, that there wasn't a dry eye in the house when the film reached it's emotional climax.
I've been thinking about this film since I saw it, there's drama, mystery, romance, a whirlwind of emotions throughout the 2 hours - in the best way possible.