The read
A Balasaur Score of 79 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 8/10, Rotten Tomatoes 84%, Metacritic 69/100. Scores higher than 94% of the 6,781 2010s drama movies in this catalog. Streaming on Netflix.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb8/10
Rotten Tomatoes84%
Metacritic69/100
7,059 audience votes
Key crew
- Garth DavisDirector
- Luke DaviesScreenplay
- Volker BertelmannOriginal Music Composer
- Dustin O'HalloranOriginal Music Composer
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
- Sunny PawarYoung Saroo
- Keshav JadhavYoung Mantosh
Stills
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Themes
australiabased on novel or bookadoptionaffectationbiographybased on true storyindiamissing childlong lost relativetasmaniastreet childdramatic
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