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LION
Where is Home?
A Lost Boy & Adoption
Two Mothers & Jalebi Clues

November 2, 2017 by Dr. Sandra E. Cohen

Where is home? That’s the complicated question at the heart of Garth Davis’ film Lion, for a lost, bewildered, illiterate, scared, traumatized, stoically brave, and lovingly gentle 5-year-old boy, Saroo (Sunny Pawar). This little boy accidentally finds himself on a train taking him far, far from home, where he can’t speak the language and has …

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Where is Home?
A Lost Boy & Adoption
Two Mothers & Jalebi Clues

Inspiration

“We come to Film and TV to find our hidden stories. If we look deeply into a character’s psyche, there is much to see about ourselves.”

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