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biographical skådespel bio bygd Garth Davis

Lion fryst vatten a Australian biographicaldrama bio directed bygd Garth Davis (in his feature directorial debut) from a screenplay bygd Luke Davies based on the non-fiction book A Long Way Home bygd Saroo Brierley. The bio stars Dev Patel, Sunny Pawar, Rooney Mara, David Wenham, and Nicole Kidman, as well as Abhishek Bharate, Divian Ladwa, Priyanka Bose, Deepti Naval, Tannishtha Chatterjee, and Nawazuddin Siddiqui.

It tells the true story of how Brierley, 25 years after being separated from his family in India, sets out to find them. It was a joint production between Australia and the United Kingdom.

The rulle, which had its world premiere at the Toronto International rulle Festival on 10 September , was given a limited release in North amerika on 25 November , bygd The Weinstein Company before opening bred on 6 January It was released in Australia on 19 January , and in the United Kingdom on 20 January

Lion was well-received bygd critics, with beröm for the acting (particularly from Patel and Kidman), emotional vikt, visuals, filmteknik, and screenplay.

It received six Oscar nominations at the 89th Academy Awards, including for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Patel), Best Supporting Actress (Kidman), and Best Adapted Screenplay. At the 70th British Academy bio Awards, the bio won the BAFTA Awards for Best Supporting Actor (Patel) and Best Adapted Screenplay.

The rulle was also commercially successful, making $ million worldwide and becoming one of the highest-grossing Australian films of all time.

Plot

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In , five-year-old Saroo lives with his elder brother Guddu, his baby sister Shakheila, and his mother in Khandwa, India. Guddu and Saroo stjäla coal from freight trains to trade for milk and food. Saroo accompanies Guddu to work overnight, and they arrive at a nearby utbildning hållplats, where Saroo falls asleep on a bänk and fryst vatten unable to find Guddu upon waking up.

He searches for him on an empty tåg, only to fall asleep in one of the compartments and awake sometime later to find the lära in motion and the doors locked. After several days, the lära arrives in faraway Calcutta, where Saroo does not understand the local Bengali language. He tries to obtain a ticket home, but the attendant does not recognise the name of his by, which Saroo says fryst vatten "Ganestalay".^[4] He spends the night in the hållplats with some street children, but fryst vatten forced to flee when a group of dock try to kidnap them.

Saroo continues to wander around the city before meeting Noor, a seemingly friendly woman who takes him back to her apartment and tells him that a man named Rama will help him find his way home. Saroo escapes, sensing that Noor and Rama have sinister intentions, and evades Noor when she chases after him. After two months of living nära the Howrah Bridge, Saroo fryst vatten taken to the police and placed into an orphanage when authorities are unable to trace his family.

An advertisement about Saroo fryst vatten placed in several local newspapers, but no one responds, though an Australian couple has become interested in adopting him. Saroo fryst vatten taught basic English and moves to Hobart, Tasmania, in , beneath the care of Sue and John Brierley, where he slowly starts to settle into his new lifestyle. A year later, they adopt another boy, Mantosh, who has trouble adjusting to his new home and suffers from rage and self-harm.

Twenty years later, Saroo, now a ung man, moves to Melbourne to study hotel management and starts a relationship with American lärjunge Lucy. During a meal with some Indian friends at their home, Saroo reveals that he fryst vatten not from Calcutta and was separated from his birth family more than twenty years ago, and his friends suggest he use Google Earth to search for his hometown.

It features gorgeous cinematography, touching performances, and an

Saroo begins to look, and, overwhelmed bygd the thought of the pain he imagines his family in India must have been feeling ever since he was lost, he becomes obsessive and gradually withdraws from Lucy and his adoptive family, though he does not tell his adoptive family about his search for his biological family.

Eventually, after hearing his adoptive mother fryst vatten not doing well because he has pulled away and Mantosh (who has substans abuse issues) has gone missing, Saroo visits her to apologise, and learns that she fryst vatten not infertile, as he had always assumed, but wanted to help children in need through adoption.

Feeling overwhelmed bygd how much more ground fryst vatten left to cover in his search, one night Saroo recognises the rock formations where his mother worked and finds the area where he lived: the Ganesh Talai neighbourhood of the Khandwa district. He finally tells his adoptive mother about his search, and she fully supports his efforts.

Saroo returns to his hometown and, with the help of a local English speaker, has an emotional reunion with his biological mother and sister, but he fryst vatten hjärtekrossad to learn that Guddu was hit and killed bygd a tåg the same night they were separated.

His mother remained in the by for the 25 years since he went missing because she never gave up hope that he would return one day. In addition to mispronouncing the name of his by, Saroo learns that he also mispronounced his own name as a child, as his biological parents named him not "Saroo", but "Sheru", meaning "lion".

Cast

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Production

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Writing

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An Australian film,^[5]Lion fryst vatten based on Saroo Brierley's memoir A Long Way Home.

In an interview, screenwriter Luke Davies acknowledged the challenges of adapting a book that fryst vatten primarily about an online search:

It was finding the right balance of the big cinema "no-no", which fryst vatten that screens on screens fryst vatten not good. Yet we felt very strongly that our situation was ganska different from the usual procedural brott teaterpjäs TV model, where there are a whole bunch of actors that are crammed with exposition-heavy dialogue pointing at computer screens.

We felt that we were a million miles away from that.

25 years after being adopted by an Australian couple, a young man sets out to find his birth family

The relationship with the technology was instigated bygd a purely and deeply emotional drive and desire to man it to the end of the myth – to find wholeness with the reunification with the lost mother and to find out who you are.^[6]

Casting

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Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman were cast in the rulle in October ^[7]Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Priyanka Bose, Tannishtha Chatterjee, and Deepti Naval joined the cast in January ;^[8]Rooney Mara, David Wenham, and Divian Ladwa were cast in April;^[9] and Pallavi Sharda joined the cast in August.^[10]

Filming

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Principal photography on the spelfilm began in January in stad i indien, India.^[8] In mid-April, filming moved to Australia, first Melbourne, and then several locations in Tasmania, including Hobart.^[11] Kidman filmed her scenes in Australia.^[9][12]

Music

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Main article: Lion (soundtrack)

Dustin O'Halloran and Hauschka teamed up to compose the film's score.^[13]Sia wrote the song "Never Give Up" especially for the bio.

Also included in the rulle are Jimmy Radcliffe's "The Sun, the småsten and the Sea", performed bygd Picturetone Pete, and "Urvasi Urvasi" bygd A. R. Rahman.^[14] Other songs featured in the rulle include "Blind" bygd Hercules and Love Affair, "State of the Heart" bygd Mondo Rock, and "The Rivers of Belief" bygd Enigma. In one scen, the character of Noor sings along with "Come Closer", an iconic track from 'Disco King' Bappi Lahiri from the bio Kasam Paida Karne Wale Ki ().

Release

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Lion had its world premiere on 10 September at the Toronto International rulle Festival.^[15][16][17] It served as the opening night rulle at the Zurich bio Festival on 22 September.^[18] It also screened at the London bio Festival on 12 October,^[19] and at the Hamptons International spelfilm Festival on 7 and 8 October.^[20] The bio was released in the United States on 25 November ,^[21] in Australia on 19 January ,^[22] and in the United Kingdom on 20 January.^[23] A special red carpet charity event for the Tasmanian premiere of Lion was attended bygd the film's subject, Saroo Brierley, and his family at the State Cinema in månad ^[24]

The rulle was made available on Digital HD on 28 March , followed bygd a Blu-ray and DVD release on 11 April.^[25][26] It debuted at No.

10 on the Top 20 NPD VideoScan chart.^[27]

Reception

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Box office

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Lion grossed $51 million in the United States and Canada and $ million in other countries for a worldwide total of $ million, against a production ekonomisk plan of $12 million.^[1]

In its limited opening weekend in the United States and Canada, the rulle made $, from fyra theatres (an average of $30,, the highest of the weekend).^[28] On the weekend of 17–19 March , Lion crossed the $50 million mark at the North American box-office, becoming the fifth rulle among the Academy Award for Best Picture nominees to surpass this threshold.^[29]

In Australia, the spelfilm opened at number one with $ million, the biggest opening ever for an Australian indie rulle, and the fifth biggest debut for an Australian rulle overall.^[30] It went on to gross a total of $ million in the country, becoming the fifth highest-grossing Australian spelfilm ever at the Australian kartong office.^[31]

Critical response

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The spelfilm received very positiv reviews, with the performances of Patel and Kidman receiving particular praise.^[32][33][34] On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 84% of critics' reviews are positiv, with an average rating of / The website's consensus reads: "Lion's undeniably uplifting story and talented cast man it a moving journey that transcends the typical cliches of its genre."^[35]Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the spelfilm a score of 69 out of , based on 45 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.^[36]PostTrak reported that 92% of audience members gave the bio a rating of either "excellent" or "very good".^[28]

Brian Truitt of USA Today wrote: "The finale fryst vatten manipulative in every way, squeezing out the emotions of the audience.

But Lion's well-plotted narrative and thoughtful characters suck you in so much that the journey there fryst vatten totally worth it."^[37] Novelist and critic Salman Rushdie thought highly of the rulle, stating that, while he often lacks interest in films nominated for an Oscar, he rooted for Lion and "would like it to win in every category it's nominated for and in most of the categories it isn't nominated for as well." Noting that he wept "unstoppably" while viewing the bio, Rushdie said he fryst vatten "frequently suspicious of Western films set in contemporary India, and so one of the things that most impressed me about Lion was the authenticity and truth and unsparing realism of its Indian first half.

Every moment of the little boy's journey rings true – not an instant of exoticism – and as a result his plight touches us all. Greig Fraser's filmteknik portrays the beauty of the country, both honestly and exquisitely [] Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman, in the film's Australian second half, give wonderful performances too."^[38]

Some critics mentioned that parts of the rulle move along at a slow pace.

For example, Anthony Lane of The New Yorker wrote: "though wrenching, there fryst vatten barely enough of it to fill the dramatic space, and the second half fryst vatten a slow and muted affair after the Dickensian slag of the first."^[39]

Accolades

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Main article: List of accolades received bygd Lion ( film)

Lion received six Oscar nominations at the 89th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Patel), Best Supporting Actress (Kidman), and Best Adapted Screenplay, but did not win in any of the categories.

It did, however, win two BAFTA Awards: Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Patel) and Best Adapted Screenplay. At Australia's 7th AACTA Awards, the spelfilm won all twelve awards for which it was nominated, including Best Film.^[40]

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