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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.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and resolved.
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Cast
- Dev PatelSaroo Brierley
- Rooney MaraLucy
- David WenhamJohn Brierley
- Nicole KidmanSue Brierley
- Abhishek BharateGuddu
- Divian LadwaMantosh Brierley
- Priyanka BoseKamla Munshi
- Deepti NavalSaroj Sood
- Tannishtha ChatterjeeNoor
- Nawazuddin SiddiquiRama
Crew
- Garth DavisDirector
- Luke DaviesScreenplay
- Greig FraserDirector of Photography
- Volker BertelmannOriginal Music Composer
- Dustin O'HalloranOriginal Music Composer
- Alexandre de FranceschiEditor
- Iain CanningProducer
- Angie FielderProducer
- Emile ShermanProducer
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