

It was released in Australia on 19 January 2017 and in the United Kingdom on 20 January 2017. The film, which had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on 10 September 2016, was given a limited release in North America on 25 November 2016, by The Weinstein Company before opening generally on 6 January 2017.

It is a joint production between Australia and the United Kingdom.

It tells the true story of how Brierley, 25 years after being separated from his family in India, sets out to find them. The film stars Dev Patel, Sunny Pawar, Rooney Mara, David Wenham, and Nicole Kidman, as well as Abhishek Bharate, Divian Ladwa, Priyanka Bose, Deepti Naval, Tannishtha Chatterjee, and Nawazuddin Siddiqui. Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc.General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters.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 non-fiction book A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley. To distinguish between the two, sometimes the lion is referred to as bababr sher. If you want Sanskritised words, there are many synonymns for lion, such as: केसरि (kesari), वनराज (vanraj, meaning king of the forests), अरि (ari).īut these are used only in literature, poetry etc.įor must purposes, सिंह is the appropriate word for lion in Hindi.Īs far as the tiger is concerned, the standard term for it in Hindi is बाघ (bagh).īut as I pointed out above, sher is used for both. Like the lion, the tiger too has many synonymns, but these are less frequently used: But it is good to distinguish between the two and I recomemend the use of सिंह (sinh) for lion and बाघ (bagh) for tiger.įor example, Government of India's Project Tiger is called बाघ परियोजना (Bagh Pariyojana) in Hindi. Language: Dual Audio (Hindi-English) Subtitle: English Links: Google Drive & Dropbox Quality: 480p 720p 1080p Bluray Size: 352MB 974MB. शार्दूल (shardool), व्याघ्र (vyagra, infact the word बाघ is the simplified version of this Sanskrit term). In Rajasthan, the tiger is called the नाहर (nahar). (Bail ko janwar ne mar diya, meaning, the bullock was slain by janwar, where janwar signifies a tiger.) So majestic and imposing is the tiger that villagers just refer to it as the जानवर (janwar, meaning just an animal or a wild animal). Incidently, the tiger is the state animal of India and is mentioned in our Constitution.

In the Hindi version of the Constitution, the word बाघ (bagh) has been used for the tiger.
