A Truly Moving and Real Movie

Rating: 9/10 (1 May 2017)

This is a truly moving story and what's more, it's real. It's based on the true story of Saroo, a child from India who gets lost in a train station looking for his brother. He then starts to travel around the country until he arrives at Calcuta and he must try to take care of himself alone.
The movie is divided in two well identified parts. The first one when the young Saroo (the newcomer Sunny Pawar in a an amazing performance that is by far better than the adult ones) gets lost and travel through India until he is taken in adoption by an Australian family. And here starts the second part, with an older Saroo (that being the Slumdog Millionaire actor, Dev Patel, who also gives a great performance) who wants to find his family, helped by Google Earth. This affects a little to the story, because in each part there are moments when I felt it was a bit long. Specially the middle part of the young Saroo and the beginning of the second part until Saroo starts looking for his family. In here I felt that the story wasn't going anywhere. If I have another thing to add that I didn't liked, it's the thing about Mantosh, his old brother when he is adopted. I felt this character was introduced but wasn't used at all. I don't know if in the real story it was like that, but for me he felt a bit off place.
But that's all I have to say of it's bad things. the rest is just amazing. The cinematography of the first part truly captures this sense of poverty and dirt of the streets of India and also makes you feel emphatic with Saroo's character, so young and lost in such a big country. In the second part it has more light and it gives you this sense of hope about him finding his family.
The story is told in such a great way (except this moments i have mentioned) that in many parts it will bring tears to your eyes, specially in the final moments of the movie. It all is accompanied by a beautiful piano score by Dustin O'Halloran & Hauschka that will only help you to get more emotional.
I recommend this movie if you want to know about a warm and real story about a young boy from India and you want to see a movie that will get you emotional in many different moments.