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Saw this with relatives some two weeks ago. I expected to be bored but was pleasantly surprised. It's about an Indian kid who mistakenly finds his way into an empty train and moves thousands of km away from his home to Calcutta. He doesn't know where his hometown is and eventually gets adopted by an Australian family. Years later he's a grown man with a good position in society and just wants to go on with his life but remembers he has an unknown hometown with a mother whose name he doesn't even know and hasn't seen in decades. He then begins a quest to find the railway station he lost himself in through Google Earth. The movie plays with strong emotions (homesickness, family separation, the burning desire to discover something) set around a plausible conflict (after all, it's a real story). The first part depicting his life in India is of a "show, don't tell" kind with little dialogue, it's beautiful. I liked the protagonist's older brother, he reminds me of several people I know. But his Australian parents are unremarkable. I got feels from this, it's not bad at all.