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Lion
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.
2016 · Directed by Garth Davis · 118 min · Drama · 16 frames
Tagline
The search begins
Crew
- Screenplay: Luke Davies
- Cinematography: Greig Fraser
- Edited by: Alexandre de Franceschi
- Music: Volker Bertelmann, Dustin O'Halloran
- Production design: Chris Kennedy
- Produced by: Emile Sherman, Iain Canning, Angie Fielder
Cast
- Dev Patel as Saroo Brierley
- Rooney Mara as Lucy
- David Wenham as John Brierley
- Nicole Kidman as Sue Brierley
- Abhishek Bharate as Guddu
- Divian Ladwa as Mantosh Brierley
- Priyanka Bose as Kamla Munshi
- Deepti Naval as Saroj Sood
- Tannishtha Chatterjee as Noor
- Nawazuddin Siddiqui as Rama
Production
- Country: Australia, United Kingdom, United States of America
- Language: Bengali, English, Hindi
- Studios: The Weinstein Company, See-Saw Films, Screen Australia, Aquarius Films
- Budget: $12,000,000
- Box office: $140,312,928
- Themes: australia, based on novel or book, adoption, affectation, biography, based on true story, india, missing child, long lost relative, tasmania
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