Saroo The Movie Belonging

It may be one of those universal experiences. You are walking through a shopping centre, train station, city street with your parents. You look up, and suddenly the realisation hits you and they are gone. That feeling of being lost and vulnerable comes as a raw and palpable fear, which thankfully for most of us is short lived. This is not the case for young Saroo. For him; it was not a momentary fear, but something so permanent that it would change his life. Saroo’s life story is told with a raw and absorbing truth. It is a genuinely important story with a huge heart that provokes fundamental questions based around identity, belonging ad cultural heritage. The film, directed by Garth Davis, promotes highly generic, aesthetic and cultural significance …show more content…
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