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Lion is a 2016 Australian biographical drama film directed by Garth Davis (in his feature directorial debut) from a screenplay by Luke Davies based on the 2013 non-fiction book A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley.
This movie starring Dev Patel, Rooney Mara and David Wenham was filmed at more than 3 locations. Among them Howrah Bridge in Calcutta, India. All filming locations of Lion from 2016 are listed below. A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home.
Jan 6, 2017 · Lion: Directed by Garth Davis. With Sunny Pawar, Abhishek Bharate, Priyanka Bose, Khushi Solanki. A five-year-old Indian boy is adopted by an Australian couple after getting lost hundreds of kilometers from home. 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.
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- Biography, Drama
- Garth Davis
- 2017-01-06
Jan 19, 2017 · Lion is the fifth film British actor Dev Patel has shot in India. The film's cast has also supported fundraising to help the millions of children living on India's streets. Nicole Kidman has...
Jan 19, 2017 · Saroo wrote down his experience - including what happened next - in a memoir that spawned Lion, which opens in the UK and Australia this week. It has already screened in the US, and is hoping to...
Five year old Saroo gets lost on a train which takes him thousands of miles across India, away from home and family. Saroo must learn to survive alone in Kolkata, before ultimately being adopted...
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- Drama, Biography
- PG-13
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Nov 24, 2016 · What is truly amazing is that the lion’s share of the acting during this early stage is by a untrained newcomer, Mumbai native Sunny Pawar, who won the part after thousands of children were screen-tested.
