One interesting journey and a true story

Rating: 8/10 (5 March 2017)

A little boy stays behind to sleep at the train station, while his older brother goes off to night shift. When he wakes up all alone he starts wondering around, looking for his brother, finds a safe place in a empty train. There he falls a sleep and when he wakes up the train is moving. He's locked in for a few days, in a totally empty train wagon. How does he survive? One day he arrives at Calcutta, a city with 15 million people. They speak another language, Bengali and he speaks Hindi. He is five years old, all alone in a big city, not being able to communicate with a majority of the residents, far away from home. How will he manage there? How will he find food, who can he trust? Can he get help to get back home? The audience is taken on a little boy's journey and we get to see how he handles life, all alone. He is a smart little resourceful boy and he manages in this dangerous place. Many dangers lure around the corners and we are kept on the edge, since we do not know if good or bad will come from every experience. There are bad people in this film, as well as good people. The name of a person that handles adoptions and investigations is very much like a real person that I know. First I thought it could be her, but I didn't know. I later on got confirmation the character portrayd was her. My world shrunk. The story is based on a true story, a real boy's adoption history and his search for his biological family. Every year children in India go missing. Some are abducted, other's perhaps have been in accidents, others have wondered away, just like this boy. There are many stories out there, this is just one of them. The movie really shows us the life in Calcutta and India. It has a real feel to it and the people are believable. The main character, played by Dev Patel, does it with good acting. I think he surely makes the audience feel the agony and the despair of this persons faith. The movie seems to have caught the feeling of agony, despair, as well as hope and love. So will he find his birth place, or is he forever lost? For that you have to go on a journey with tears, joy, exploration and new experiences. To know, you have to go on a journey with this boy and see yet another interesting journey and faith of a person. The movie really keeps you in the characters feelings, you feel all up and downs and so on. Perhaps you might even learn a thing or two. This movie is a good entertaining drama.