Lion

2016
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Title: Lion

Original Title: Lion

Year: 2016

Info

Release Dates

  • UK: January 20 2017
  • United States: November 25 2016

Plot

Saroo Brierley is a child of only five years that was lost in the city of Calcutta. Looking for his mother throughout the city, the small surviving just as can the inhospitable streets of India. One day, he is captured and sent to an orphanage. Although his life seems doomed to oblivion, there is hope. An Australian couple pays attention to him and decide to adopt, the little boy has a new oportuniti for his life in Hobart (Tasmania), along with his adopted family, a life away from the sadness that lived to be separated from his family. Years pass and Saroo becomes a 25 year old studying business and hospitality in the Australian International Hotel School in Canberra. However, the young Saroo feel that he needs to know what happened to his biological family. Whereupon, Saroo decides to return to India, his native country, to find answers about his past.

Awards

  • 2017 Academy Awards (Oscars): 6 0
  • 2017 Golden Globes: 4 0
  • 2017 BAFTA Awards: 7 2

Cast

Director:

Garth DavisGarth Davis

Sunny Pawar

Sunny Pawar

Young Saroo

Dev Patel

Dev Patel

Saroo Brierley

Nicole Kidman

Nicole Kidman

Sue Brierley

David Wenham

David Wenham

John Brierley

Videos

Clip 'Lion' Meeting John and Sue 0:33
'Lion' Clip 'I'm Lost' 1:00

'Lion' Clip 'I'm Lost'

January 15 2017

'Lion' tráiler 2:21

'Lion' tráiler

September 7 2016

Photos

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Trivia

Producer's War

The Saroo's story was so incredible that there was a war of bids to get the rights about the story and the original book.

Recreating the moment

The director, Garth Davis, got very involved with the Saroo's story, y he want to respect as much as posible the real facts. Thereupon, they were faithful even in the locations; they travelled to India and visited Kolkota (Calcutta) and the originary Saroo's town. His birth family visited the set in many times, and there was where his biological mother and his adoptive mother met each other. Futhermore, the director says that shooting in Kolkata (Calcutta) was not an easy task because of the amount of people and pollution, but the story required shooting at key points like the central station or the Hugli River, a tributary of the Ganges, where the production department had to ferry the whole team through the narrow canals of the flower market.

Child's casting

One of the biggest challenges was finding an Indian boy who played the character of Saroo at age five. According to one of the producers, Angie Fielder, they tested thousands of children from a lot of Indian cities. Those who stood out for the paper were recorded and the tapes were sent to Australia. Later, Australian casting director Kirsty McGregor and screenwriter Miranda Harcourt went specifically to India to work with the selected children. Among them was the brilliant Sunny Pawar, who was finally selected to play the little Saroo. Sunny was everything that the director was looking for in the child; his naturalness and his gaze are the most beautiful elements that we can see in the film.

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