A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.
Acting
Sunny Pawar's tiny face carries the first hour.
Cinematography
Train scenes that'll give you actual vertigo.
Score
Hauschka's piano will destroy you softly.
Director
Garth Davis
Dev Patel
Saroo Brierley
Rooney Mara
Lucy
David Wenham
John Brierley
Nicole Kidman
Sue Brierley
Abhishek Bharate
Guddu
Divian Ladwa
Mantosh Brierley
Priyanka Bose
Kamla Munshi
Deepti Naval
Saroj Sood
Tannishtha Chatterjee
Noor
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
Rama
Sunny Pawar
Young Saroo
Benjamin Rigby
Waiter
Kaushik Sen
Police Official
Riddhi Sen
Cafe Man
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Dev Patel spent eight months learning to operate Google Earth like Saroo actually did — no shortcuts, real scrolling.
The real Saroo Brierley still has that Google Earth search history saved. The coordinates led to a village renamed, houses rebuilt, but his mother waiting.
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