![]() Saroo continues to wander the streets of Calcutta. He runs out of her home before Rawa can return to claim him. The next morning, Noor tries to feed Saroo again but he no longer trusts her. He tells Noor that Saroo is the exact type of boy that “they” are looking for. ![]() Before he exits, he asks Saroo to stand up and looks him over. Rawa visits and he cuddles next to Saroo, telling him he’s going to take him to some friends. He goes to bed and she tells him a friend named Rawa wants to meet him. She takes him to her home and gives him some food and some soda pop, which he’s seemingly never had before. A woman named Noor sees him and quickly learns he doesn’t speak Bangladesh but Hindi, which she speaks. He wanders through the city, alone, with a piece of cardboard to sleep on. Only Saroo escapes because he’s small enough to fit through a gap in the gate. But in the middle of the night, officers come and chase them. Now stranded in Calcutta, Saroo tries to sleep in the train station tunnel with some other homeless children. They don’t know where that he is and they only speak Bangladesh so Saroo is pushed out of line by the other passengers. He waits in line to speak to the sales agents at the ticket booths, telling them he is trying to get back to Ganeshtalay. Saroo is swarmed by people boarding the train as he steps off and calls out for his brother. When the train finally does stop, it’s in CALCUTTA, 1600 kilometers (1000 miles) away from Saroo’s home. An announcement is made at train stations that the train is out of operation and not carrying passengers so the train will not stop. The train passes through a city and he screams at someone to help him get out an Indian child just stares at him, unmoving. Saroo quickly learns there are bars on the window and no way to exit in the compartment he’s in. He calls out for Guddu, assuming he must be on the train, but no one is there with him. The next morning, we see Saroo has crawled onto the train and fallen asleep. Saroo walks the train yard calling out for his brother. When he wakes up, his brother isn’t there. Guddu steps down into the now empty train tracks, with a giant water tower in the distance, while Saroo goes back to sleep. He tells Saroo he’s going to check on the work site and says he’ll be back for him. Guddu comments that Saroo is too young to be able to endure night work and he shouldn’t have brought him. Saroo says he’s tired and wants to sleep so he lays down on a bench. They get to the nearby train station late at night, which becomes vacant after the last train of the night arrives. ![]() They walk amongst the train tracks to the next city. Guddu finally agrees to let Saroo come along. ![]() He then tells Saroo it’s too heavy for him to lift bales of hay so Saroo goes outside and lifts various objects, including his bike. Guddu first points out that Saroo has to stay with Shekila but he tells her their mom will be with her. Guddu is going to leave for a week to help lift bales of hay and Saroo asks him to take him along. The next day, Kamla leaves to collect rocks which she does for a living. ![]() They return back to their village and find their little sister, Shekila and their mother Kamla. At the moment, they are only able to get some milk and some money. Saroo sees hot peppers for sale and notes that he wants some Guddu tells him he will have some someday. We are told it’s KHANDWA VILLAGE in 1986. Image via The Weinstein Company.Saroo and Guddu go into the village to sell the coal. Against all the odds, however – in 2012 – Saroo tracked his birth family down. He didn’t know the name of his home town didn’t know where it was and didn’t know how to get back. Lion tells the true story of Saroo Brierley, who was accidentally separated from his family as a toddler in the tiny Indian town of Ganesh Talai, and then adopted by a couple in Tasmania. Listen: Sue Brierley opens up to Mia Freedman about her and her husband’s struggles with their other adopted son, Mantosh. Because according to Sue Brierley, his story is still unfolding. The film didn’t tie a bow around his story. One of those stories is that of Mantosh – the other child adopted by Sue and John Brierley (along with the film’s protagonist, Saroo) whose atrocious experience in Indian orphanages has left him battling severe mental illness. But I will say the following…īy the final five minutes, the entire cinema – men, women, children – were overflowing with emotion sobbing tears of elation and profound pain.ĭespite the very positive ending however, there are parts of the film that are left completely unresolved loose ends that couldn’t be brought to a happy cinematic conclusion simply because it would be a lie. The Oscar-nominated film Lion was the first movie I saw at an actual cinema in five years. ![]()
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