![]() "You've come a long way, haven't you, little one?" Sue She needs to see how beautiful you are.” SueĪfter Saroo tells Sue his plans to find his birth mother, she says this, a blessing for his journey and an affirmation of who he is. He brags that he is going into the hotel business exclusively to make money, and the other students laugh at his playful arrogance. ![]() “I want to run a hotel so that I can put all the profits in my pocket.” SarooĪt college in Melbourne, Saroo proves to be rather cocky in one of his classes. He thinks of them both as burdens, Indian children with troubled pasts that have made Sue miserable. Saroo says this to Sue, expressing his guilt at how he and Mantosh have made her life harder. "You weren't just adopting us but our past as well. He tells Mantosh not to upset their mother while he is away at college, and rather scornfully suggests that Mantosh only makes their mother unhappy. Saroo says this to his troubled adoptive brother, Mantosh, on the eve of his departure for college. "Please could you not do anything while I'm away to make mum more unhappy than you already do?" Saroo She tells him that this is not the case at all, that she and John chose to adopt even though they could have had children. When Saroo becomes discouraged in his search for his family, he talks to Sue about the fact that it must have been difficult raising two children who were not really her own. But to take a child that's suffering like you boys were. Have a child, couldn't guarantee it will make anything better. That's one of the reasons I fell in love with your dad. We wanted the two of you in our lives.That's what we chose. Here, Saroo articulates his gratitude to his adoptive parents. He communicates to them that, even though it is extremely important that he has found his biological mother, he thinks of them as his parents, since they raised him, and there is no complication in that arrangement. This is the message that Saroo leaves on Sue and John's answering machine after he finds his biological mother. I found her, but that doesn't change who you are. Safe and all the questions have been answered. ![]() Lucy asks Saroo this as a hypothetical question to try and understand what exactly he is trying to figure out about his past. "What if you do find home and they're not even there? Then you just keep searching?" Lucy Saroo says this to Lucy, his girlfriend, when he realizes that he had a whole life in India that he barely remembers. This encounter sets up the question of who Saroo "really" is and where he is from, which is something that he will set to work trying to figure out for the remainder of the film. When another member asks where exactly, Saroo cannot answer as he does not know, and responds that he's not really Indian. "I'm adopted, I'm not really Indian." Sarooĭuring a group meeting at school in Melbourne, Saroo is asked where he is from and responds that he is from Calcutta.
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