Lion

Movie Review
Release on: Feb 24, 2017

Movie name	:	Lion
Genres	:	Drama
Run time	:	118 min
Produced by	:	Iain Canning Angie Fielder Emile Sherman
Directed by	:	Garth Davis
Music by	:	125 min
Writers	:	Saroo Brierley, Luke Davies
Cinematography	:	Greig Fraser
Edited by	:	Alexandre de Franceschi
Production	:	See-Saw Films, Aquarius Films ,Screen Australia Sunstar, Entertainment, The Weinstein Company
Countries	:	USA

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Stars : Sunny Pawar, Abhishek Bharate, Priyanka Bose, Khushi Solanki, Shankar Nisode, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Riddhi Sen, Koushik Sen, Rita Boy, Udayshankar Pal, Surojit Das, Deepti Naval, Menik Gooneratne, David Wenham, Nicole Kidman, Keshav Jadhav, Dev Patel, Benjamin Rigby, Divian Ladwa, Todd Sampson, Rooney Mara, Daniela Farinacci, Pallavi Sharda, Sachin Joab, Arka Das, Emilie Cocquerel, Vinod Chauhan, Babli Pandey, Madhukar Narlwade, Rohini Kargaiya, John Brierley, Saroo Brierley, Sue Brierley, Tegan Crowley, Eamon Farren, Belinda Misevski, Lucy Moir, Anna Samson, Alexandra Schepisi

Story : In 1986, Saroo was a five-year-old child in India of a poor but happy rural family. On a trip with his brother, Saroo soon finds himself alone and trapped in a moving decommissioned passenger train that takes him to Calcutta, 1500 miles away from home. Now totally lost in an alien urban environment and too young to identify either himself or his home to the authorities, Saroo struggles to survive as a street child until he is sent to an orphanage. Soon, Saroo is selected to be adopted by the Brierley family in Tasmania, where he grows up in a loving, prosperous home. However, for all his material good fortune, Saroo finds himself plagued by his memories of his lost family in his adulthood and tries to search for them even as his guilt drives him to hide this quest from his adoptive parents and his girlfriend. Only when he has an epiphany does he realize not only the answers he needs, but also the steadfast love that he has always had with all his loved ones in both worlds.

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Director Garth Davis' six Oscar nominated debut feature film is a gut-wrenching true story that tugs at your heartstrings. Do take a bunch of tissues along for this one's an absolute tear-jerker.

While Dev Patel, as the older Saroo and Nicole Kidman, his Australian adoptive mother Sue, deserve the accolades they have been getting, it’s Sunny Pawar, who truly deserves an Oscar. He is ably supported by Abhishek Bharate, who plays his older brother Guddu. The kids’ undemonstrative performances, sans histrionics are noteworthy.

What also makes this emotional roller coaster special is Luke Davies’ powerful adapted screenplay. Garth’s storytelling is equally compelling as he makes you see yourself in Saroo and endure his pain. The narrative evokes fear, concern and compassion without being preachy and that’s rare for a film of this genre. Lion has some minor hitches though. The second half gets sluggish and Rooney Mara’s irrelevance to the story interrupts the gripping narrative.

While Sunny is the scene-stealer here, Dev and Nicole, prove their mettle as actors in a heartbreaking moment, that’s perhaps the best scene of the film. Tears trickle down your cheeks as Sue tells Saroo why she chose to adopt him when she could have had her own children.

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