Lion (2015)

2016 film directed by Garth Davis.

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Year

2015

Runtime

118 min

Genres

Drama, Biography

Countries

United Kingdom, Australia, United States

Original language

English

Director

Garth Davis

Writer

Luke Davies

Music

Dustin O'Halloran, Hauschka

Awards

14 won · 19 nominations

Plot

Lion is a 2016 Australian biographical drama film directed by Garth Davis (in his feature directorial debut) from a screenplay by Luke Davies based on the 2013 nonfiction book A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley.

Summary source: Wikipedia (en) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Cast

• Sunny Pawar as Saroo Brierley
• Abhishek Bharate as Guddu Khan
• Priyanka Bose as Kamla Munshi
• Khushi Solanki as Shekila Khan
• Tannishtha Chatterjee as Noor
• Nawazuddin Siddiqui as Rama
• Riddhi Sen as Café Man
• Kaushik Sen as Police Officer
• Rita Boy as Amita
• Deepti Naval as Mrs. Sood
• Menik Gooneratne as Swarmina
• David Wenham as John Brierley

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• Argo 2012
• The Imitation Game 2014

Sources and licences

• Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
• Wikipedia (en) · CC BY-SA 4.0
• Poster: Wikipedia (en)

Updated November 13, 2026