The Lion is a 2016 biopic drama directed by Garth Davis (featured debut) and written by Luke Davies, based on a non-fiction book A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley. Movie stars Dev Patel, Sunny Pawar, Rooney Mara, David Wenham and Nicole Kidman, and tell the true story of how Brierley, 25 years after separating from his family at Burhanpur, decided to find him.
The film, which premiered in the world at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 10, 2016, was given a limited release in the United States on November 25, 2016, by the Weinstein Company before it opened publicly on January 6, 2017. It was released in Australia on January 19, 2017 and United Kingdom on January 20, 2017.
Lion received six Oscar nominations at the 89th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Patel), Best Supporting Actress (Kidman) and Best Adaptation Scenario. It won two BAFTA Awards for Best Supporting Actor (Patel) and Best Adaptation Scenario. The film is also commercially successful at generating $ 140 million worldwide, becoming one of Australia's best-selling films of all time.
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Plot
In 1986, Saroo, a five-year-old boy, lives with his older brother Guddu, his mother and sister in Khandwa, India. Guddu and Saroo stole coal from freight trains to trade milk and food. One day, Saroo followed his brother to work and they arrived at the nearest train station, where Saroo decided to stay back and take a nap. Guddu tries to wake her up, but Saroo is too tired. When Guddu does not return, Saroo searches for him and board the train which allegedly Guddu is on the ship. He fell asleep again in one of the compartments, and got up to find the train moving. After a few days, he arrived in distant Calcutta, where he did not understand the local Bengali language. He stood at the ticket counter and tried to get the return ticket, but the officer did not recognize the name of his village, which Saroo said was "Ginestalay". He spent the night at the station with some street children, but then woke up and was forced to run when a group of people tried to kidnap them.
Saroo continues to roam around town before finding Noor, a seemingly friendly woman who takes her back to his apartment. He tells Saroo that a man named Rama will help him find his way home. Saroo runs away, sensing that Noor and Rama have evil intentions, and flees Noor when he chases her. After two months living near Howrah Bridge, Saroo was taken to the police by a young man. Unable to track down his family, they put him in an orphanage. Three months later, Saroo was introduced to Ny. Sood, who told him that he had advertised about him in some local newspapers, but no one answered. He then tells him that an Australian couple is interested in adopting him. He started teaching English Saroo and he moved to Hobart, Tasmania in 1987, under the care of Sue and John Brierley, where he slowly began to settle down. A year later, they adopted another boy, Mantosh, who had difficulty adjusting to a new home and suffering anger and self-harm.
Twenty years later, Saroo, now a young man, moved to Melbourne to study hotel management. She started a relationship with Lucy, an American student. While dining with some Indian friends in their home, he finds a jalebi, a delicious meal he remembers from his childhood. She confessed that she was adopted, and her friends suggested she use Google Earth to search her hometown in India. Saroo begins his quest, but over time disconnects from Lucy, overwhelmed by the emotional thoughts his family has to pass through when he's lost.
Saroo visits Sue, whose health is deteriorating, and knows that she is infertile, but has chosen to help others in need through adoption, believing that there are already too many people on Earth. Saroo spent a long time looking for nothing for his hometown. One night, while he was scanning Google Earth, he saw the rock formations where his mother worked, and then found his residence: the Ganesh Talai neighborhood in Khandwa district. She finally tells her adoptive mother about her search, and she fully supports her efforts.
Saroo returns to his hometown, and with the help of a local English speaker, has an emotional reunion with his biological mother and sister. He also learns that Guddu is dead, killed by trains on the same night when they are separated at the station as children. Saroo's mother never despairs and believes that one day her lost son will return, and never moved from the village. The film ends with a description of the actual return of Saroo to India in February 2012. A real Australian family photo is shown, as well as Saroo footage introducing Sue to her biological mother in India, who deeply respects Sue's concern for her son. Saroo later learned that he had mispronounced his own name, which is actually a Sheru, which means "lion".
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Cast
- Dev Patel as Saroo Brierley adult
- Sunny Pawar as young Brierley saroo
- Rooney Mara as Lucy, Saroo's girlfriend
- David Wenham as John Brierley, Saroo's adoptive father
- Nicole Kidman as Sue Brierley, Saroo's adoptive mother
- Abhishek Bharate as Guddu Khan, Saroo's biological brother
- Divian Ladwa as Mantosh Brierley, Saroo's adopted sister
- Keshav Jadhav as the Young Mantosh
- Priyanka Bose as Kamla Munshi, Saroo's biological mother
- Deepti Naval as Saroj Sood, founder of the Indian Society for Sponsorship and Adoption (ISSA)
- Tannishtha Chatterjee as Noor
- Nawazuddin Siddiqui as Rama
- Benjamin Rigby as Servant
- Riddhi Sen as Cafà ©  © Man, responsible for bringing Saroo to the authorities
- Kaushik Sen as Police Officer
- Rita Boy as Amita, Saroo's friend at the orphanage
- Pallavi Sharda as Prama, Saroo college friend
- Sachin Joab as Bharat, Saroo's college friend
- Arka Das as Sami, Saroo college friend
- Emilie Cocquerel as Annika, Saroo's college friend
Production
The Australian film is based on the memoir of Saroo Brierley A Long Way Home .
While writing the screenplay, Screenplay writer Luke Davies recognizes the challenge of adapting a book primarily about online search.
In October 2014, Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman were cast in the film for the lead role, even though they were nominated in the support category. In January 2015, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Priyanka Bose, Tannishtha Chatterjee, and Deepti Naval joined the cast. In April 2015, Rooney Mara, David Wenham, and Divian Ladwa also joined the players. Pallavi Sharda also joined the movie player to play Saroo's friends. Hauschka and Dustin O'Halloran put together a movie score.
Filming
The main photography on the film starts in January 2015 in Kolkata, India. In mid-April, filming was moved to Australia, in Melbourne and then to several locations in Tasmania, including Hobart. Kidman filmed the scene in Australia.
Music
Dustin O'Halloran and Hauschka worked together to write a score for the film.
Sia wrote the song "Never Give Up" for the movie which also included the song "The Sun, The Sand And The Sea" from famous songwriter Jimmy Radcliffe and "Urvasi Urvasi" by Tamil music composer A R Rahman.
The film also includes songs from artists such as Hercules and Love Affair ("Blind"), Mondo Rock ("State of the Heart"), Enigma ("The Rivers of Belief") and Picturetone Pete and Jimmy Radcliffe ("The Sun the Sand and the Sea ").
Release
The film has a world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 10, 2016. It serves as the opening night film at the Zurich Film Festival on September 22, 2016. It also plays at the London Film Festival on October 12, 2016, and at the Hamptons International Film Festival at 7 and October 8, 2016.
The film was released in the United States on November 25, 2016, in Australia on January 19, 2017, and in the UK on January 20, 2017.
Home media
Lion was made available on Digital HD on March 28, 2017, and then followed by a release on Blu-ray and DVD on April 11, 2017. The film debuted at No. 1. 10 in the Top 20 NPD VideoScan charts.
Reception
box office
Lions earned $ 50 million in the United States and Canada and $ 88.3 million in other countries totaling $ 140.1 million worldwide, against a production budget of $ 12 million.
In its limited opening weekend in the United States and Canada, the film earns $ 123,360 from four theaters ($ 30,840 average, weekend highs). On the weekend of March 17-19, 2017, the Lion successfully penetrated the $ 50 million mark in North American box-office, becoming the fifth film of 2016 among Academy Awards for Best Film nomination to surpass this threshold.
In Australia, it opened at number one with $ 3.18 million, the largest ever opening for Australian indie films, and the fifth biggest debut for the Australian film as a whole. It grossed $ 22.7 million in five weeks, and finally grossed $ 27,729 million on March 13, 2017, becoming the sixth best-selling Australian film ever at the domestic box office.
Critical response
Lion received generally positive reviews, with the appearance of Patel and Kidman being praised. On the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, has an 86% approval rating based on 209 reviews, with a weighted average rating of 7.3/10. The critical consensus reads, " Lion ' an undeniable story and talented players make it a moving journey that goes beyond the typical cliches of its stream. " In Metacritic this film has a normalized score of 69 out of 100, based on 45 critics, showing "generally favorable reviews". PostTrak reports that 92% of the audience gave this movie a "very good" or "excellent" rating.
Brian Truitt from USA Today wrote: "The end is manipulative in every way, blackmailing the audience's emotions, but the narrative and thoughtful character of Singleton plans to suck you so much that the journey is really worth it." Novelist and critic Salman Rushdie longs for a film that says that although he is often less interested in the film nominated for Oscars, this year he supports Lion, who believes that "I want to win in every category." it was nominated for and in most categories it was not nominated as well. "Noting that she was crying" unstoppably "while watching a movie, Rushdie said she was" often suspicious of Western films organized in contemporary India, and so one of the things that impressed me most about Lion was genuineness and truth and realism that did not his duties The first half of India Every moment in the journey the little boy rings true - not instantaneous exoticism - and as a result his grief touches all of us, cinematography Greig Fraser portrays the beauty of the country, both honestly and beautifully [...] Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman, in the second half of the Australian film, gave a remarkable show as well. "
Some critics say that parts of the film move slowly. For example, Anthony Lane of The New Yorker wrote: "... based on a true story, though heartbreaking, there is hardly enough to fill the dramatic space, and the second half is slow and silences the affair after the first Dickensian punch. "
Accolades
Lion received six Oscar nominations at the 89th Academy Awards, including Best Film, Best Supporting Actor (Patel), Best Supporting Actress (Kidman) and Best Adaptation Scenario, but did not win in any of the categories. It won two BAFTA Awards, however, for Best Supporting Actor (Patel) and Best Adaptation Scenario. At Australia's AACTA Awards 7, he won twelve awards, in all nominated categories.
References
External links
- Official website
- Lions on IMDb
- Lions at Rotten Tomatoes
- Lions in Metacritic
- Lions in AllMovie
- Sunstar Entertainment
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