a True story based on an Autobiography

Rating: 9/10 (6 February 2017)

i have been working with news media and last year i came across a news story which talked about an Indian who was adopted & living in Australia for 20 years since his childhood coming back to India after he successfully and miraculously tracked back his lost hometown ( which he didn't know where it was) with the help of google...this was all put in his autobiography - A Long Way Home...(this name coincides with my favourite supertramp song also ;) anyways sheru was able to track the river stream, station tracks and locality he stayed as a child in central India and was reunited with his mother fatima munshi who had never given hope of finding me him again and had been visiting temples and dargahs for the same..it was a special story indeed and with lot of hope but no one knew the details or tried to get into the events which made him go to Australia or how he was separated from his family somewhere in khandwa ( the city of central India where legendary singer kishore kumar was also born)...now lion the film based on same true story does two things here..it brings drama to the film and tears in the eyes of the audience...but more important is the support it gives to the lost or abandoned kids...there have been films like salaam Bombay & slumdog millionaire who did the same and so it becomes essential to promote or encourage this film....now the hard fact today is that sheru is back in Australia and doesn't send any financial aid anymore to his mother fatima in India..whereas she still does washing of utensils at households and is able to earn less then 30 dollars a month which is enough for her monthly cost of living...this is what the film didn't talk about ;))