Lion was filmed in Kolkata in India and in Australia.
Wellington Park
In movie
Scene where Saroo and Lucy take a hike.
Real
Scene was shot Wellington Park is the protected area which encompasses kunanyi / Mount Wellington and surrounds near Hobart, Tasmania. There are numerous hiking and mountain bike tracks within the park of varying difficulty.
Howrah Bridge
In movie
Scene where Saroo watches people washing in the river.
Real
Scene was shot Howrah Bridge is a bridge with a suspended span over the Hooghly River in West Bengal, India. Commissioned in 1943, the bridge was originally named the New Howrah Bridge, because it replaced a pontoon bridge at the same location linking the two cities of Howrah and Kolkata (Calcutta).
The bridge is one of four on the Hooghly River and is a famous symbol of Kolkata and West Bengal.
The Howrah Bridge is currently the sixth-longest bridge of its type in the world.
Kolkata
Railway Water Supply Dam Khandwa
In movie
Scene where Saroo remembers being near a dam with his brother Guddu when he was a little kid.
Real
Scene was shot Railroad water dam, Handwa
Khandwa