Genre: Biographical Drama
Duration: 118 minutes
Saroo is a young feisty five-year-old boy who travel by train with his older brother Guddu but falls asleep and Guddu goes to do his job. Saroo wakes up and cannot find his brother in the deserted station, this is when life changes for the young boy.
The film opens with two young brothers Saroo and Guddu, one day Guddu is going to work and Saroo follows. Saroo gets tired and falls asleep and so Guddu leaves him at the train station. Saroo wakes up and cannot find his brother and so he boards a train thinking that must be where he is. Saroo falls asleep and in that time the train moves off. 14 hours later Saroo arrives in Calcutta, where he does not speak the language and has no idea what his home town is called.
Saroo wanders the streets and learns how to fend for himself as a beggar. Months later Saroo meets a young man who takes him to the police station. Saroo is sent to an orphanage where life changes for him as he is adopted by a loving family in Australia. He travels to Tasmania in 1987 to meet his new family, The Brierley’s, where he settles in with the family life.
Years later, Saroo is now grown up and has moved to Melbourne to study hotel management. When friends start asking about his childhood this brings up memories for Saroo.
Saroo starts using his knowledge and manages to draw a perimeter on a map of where he may be from using the time he was on the train and the speed of the train. He then uses Google Earth to zoom into different areas until he finds a waterfall he used to play at with his brother.
Saroo returns to his home town and uses his memory to follow through to his old house and he is reunited with mum and sister. An emotional reunion follows and Saroo learns that his older brother actually died not long after he went missing.
The film ends on a happy note where we meet the real Saroo and both his mother’s embrace each other. This is an emotional filled award winning film that will keep you on your toes hoping and praying that Saroo finds what he is looking for, both as a child and later as an adult.
