Touches you and makes you cry out with heart

Rating: 10/10 (1 March 2017)

I'm generally a no review writer but had to pen a review about this movie. I happen to see the trailer of the movie and I was touched to my core. Beinf an Indian, it touches even more. I immediately booked the tickets for the next day with my wife.
Before seeing the trailer or the movie, I heard about Dev Patel winning the Oscars for this movie as best support actor and rightly so. But the showstopper of the movie is undoubtedly "Sunny Pawar". This little guy creates magic through his cute eyes, voice and the dialogues. He just mesmerize you guys as a young Saroo, who is lost and alone in such a unfamiliar place. The risk taken by the director to lead the film major role on such a young actor is creditable and it had paid off leaps and bounds to the movie.
The casting, the story, the cinematography and the amazing music was done perfectly and I actually cannot fault this film. Even though most part of the movie is in Hindi (with English subtitles), it still conveys what it should. Watching the movie made me and my wife cry 'n' number of times. Its the most gripping and compelling films I have ever watched.
One thing is for sure, at the end of the movie, you will feel the pain and the struggle through which saroo had gone.
LION is a film that I urge you to go and see because a film like this needs the coverage and its subject matter is something people need to be made more aware of.