![]() Most importantly, he recollects and recognizes the details of the village and his house. Getting back to the story, does Saroo find home? Yes, thanks to Google Earth, he locates his village. It takes complete control of your mind and heart. They are done so amazingly that Guddu not only haunts Saroo in the film but very smoothly starts living in your mind as well. I loved the way the scenes where Guddu’s memories seem to start haunting Saroo wherever he goes are filmed. Kudos to Garth Davis for outstanding direction. There comes a point where you want to dive in and help him reunite with his family just so that he could live in peace. Your heart keeps breaking for this lost soul. His mental fatigue, emotional exhaustion, and restlessness followed him wherever he went – to a party, to meet his family, during intimate moments with his girlfriend – he couldn’t live an undisturbed life even if he wished to.ĭev Patel has very well portrayed this restlessness and fatigue on screen. Saroo couldn’t sleep or behave normally around friends and family. As Saroo grew up, his yearning to go back to his roots intensified – to an extent where it started getting in the way of his normal life. It was like Guddu lived with him, not allowing him to let a day go by where he doesn’t think about him and the family. Besides his mother, he also longed to be reunited with Guddu. Though the couple raised the kid well, his heart and mind always travelled back to his own mother. Saroo was then adopted by an Australian couple, John Brierley and Sue Brierley. Unfortunately, the brother never returned leaving Saroo with no other option than to wander off. Left home at night in search of food, Guddu, Saroo’s elder brother, asked him to rest at the railway station and wait for his return. The boy hailing from a small town in Madhya Pradesh separated from his brother at the age of 5 and did not find his way back home for 25 long years. ![]() Lion is a true story of Saroo Brierley, the author of the book, A Long Way Home. If you manage to do so, the marks still remain. Have you ever lost anything that has been very close to your heart? So close that losing it never let you live in peace? If yes, how did you silence the chaos in your heart and mind? Did you find it back or simply let it go? And if you found it, what happened next? Did you feel the same connection that you had with it before you lost it? Or you were able to silence the ache but what you lost was gone forever even after you found it back? Some questions can never be answered.
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