Lion (2016)

Lion is a 2016 Drama film directed by Garth Davis, written by Luke Davies and produced by Iain Canning.  This was based on the non-fiction book ‘A long way home’ by Saroo Breirley with Larry Buttrose. This was on the world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival. Production companies of this film were See-saw films and distributed by The Weinstein Company. The location of the film is set in Australia, India and United Kingdom. The film was set in three languages; Bengali, Hindi and English. The budget of the film was $12 million and had a box office of $75.3 million for its outstanding true based story and wide range audience from huge fans of Dev Patel who played the protagonist of this film. He was also starring in Slumdog Millionaire, reaching out to the audience of that making them watch ‘Lion’ with their similarities of child exploitation, poverty and crime in India. Slumdog Millionaire would be a film to compare as they both star Dev Patel playing as the protagonist living in the cruel third world country known as India.

Performance was a key micro feature that tied together the story performed by Dev Patel telling an astonishing story where he lost home at the age of five and had to survive in Kolkata alone. He was almost sex trafficked but luckily escaped and put into an orphanage where an Australian couple adopted him, giving him the life he needed and brought him up to be a beautifully smart 25 year old business man who wanted to find his real family. The scene where he hugged his Australian mother signified how he showed his love and affection to a woman who wasn’t even his blood, but still considered her as a mother. Young Saroo gathered an empathetic audience who felt very sorry for his poor conditions of his vulnerable reality.