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Mixed emotions regarding Guddu...


Of course I hoped the entire family to reunite. However, when we found out Guddu had passed away I was devastated for Saroo but partly relieved when it transpired he had died the same night Saroo went missing; he wouldn't have to live with the decades of guilt and anguish or have to tell his mother he had lost him, especially after the scene where the mother asked why he hadn't looked after Saroo and didn't he love him after his watermelon injury.

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did i miss this part ?? where did they mention WHEN he died??

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Right at the end, before the end credits. It seems that that Guddu was killed that night, hit by a train, and that is why he never came back for Saroo.

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Details were revealed in onscreen titles.

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You should re-watch the ending. Im assuming that also means you missed the scene of grown Saroo imagining he was playing with his brother again on the tracks? It was so heartbreaking but beautiful!

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by Hanna93

Of course I hoped the entire family to reunite. However, when we found out Guddu had passed away I was devastated for Saroo but partly relieved when it transpired he had died the same night Saroo went missing; he wouldn't have to live with the decades of guilt and anguish or have to tell his mother he had lost him, especially after the scene where the mother asked why he hadn't looked after Saroo and didn't he love him after his watermelon injury.


I actually believe had Guddu not died that night, Saroo would not have gone missing. Saroo got lost because nobody came back for him. Those scenes where we see Guddu looking for his brother is only in Saroo's imagination.

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Check out the movie, The Impossible.. also about separated family.. different setting but nice reunion.

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I must admit here I felt exactly the same. Sorry he died, but at least not having to witness the awful scene of admitting to his mother having lost his darling little brother! All the suspense building up to what happened to Guddu, and the meaning of the title, was excellently done and the film earned all its accolades.

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