Story Line
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.
“The search begins”
Top Cast
Dev Patel
Saroo Brierley
Rooney Mara
Lucy
David Wenham
John Brierley
Nicole Kidman
Sue Brierley
Abhishek Bharate
Guddu
Divian Ladwa
Mantosh Brierley
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Rating
8.0/ 10
Release Date
2016-11-24
Runtime
1h 58m
Genres
Drama
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User Reviews (4)
djgri
4/10
•5/1/2017An interesting true story. Film starts well and ends well. In the middle, there is a rapid acceleration from being a boy to being a man that misses out on a lot of an explanation as to how he ended up being the person he was. Quite boring in the midd...
Reno
9/10
•6/26/2017**Lost in India, found in Australia!**
Based on the book 'A Long Way Home' that tells the story of a young Indian boy who lost his brother in a railway station in the night and the next morning he woke up thousands kilometers away from home. Not k...
Filipe Manuel Neto
8/10
•1/7/2023**A film of great quality, although marked by the duality of the script and by an excessive emotional appeal.**
This film, for me, has one big point for it and one big point against it. The point in its favor is that it is consistently based on a ...
CinemaSerf
7/10
•3/16/2025Though it’s Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman who take top billing, it’s the hugely engaging Sunny Pawar who steals his scenes here as the young Saroo. He’s growing up in rural India with his elder brother Guddu (Abhishek Bharate) living fairly hand to mou...