'We wanted the two of you in our lives. That's what we chose.'

Rating: 10/10 (13 April 2017)

In a time where immigration is a raw debate along comes a true story that is not only touching on the level of the main character but also speaks clearly about the adoption agencies around the world placing lost or unwanted children in other countries where parents can afford them. This is a multifaceted story and one that gleams from each of the facets.
The setting is 1986 India in the Hindu region. Saroo (a sensationally fine Sunny Pawar) was a five-year-old child in India of a poor but happy rural family. On a trip with his brother Guddu (Abhishek Bharate), Saroo soon finds himself alone and trapped in a moving decommissioned passenger train that takes him to Calcutta, 1500 miles away from home. Totally lost in a strange 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 (Nicole Kidman and David Wenham) in Tasmania, where he grows up in a loving, prosperous home. Yet for all his comfort and good fortune, Saroo finds himself plagued by his memories of his lost family in his adulthood (as played by Dev Patel) and tries to search for them even as his guilt drives him to hide this quest from his adoptive parents and his girlfriend Lucy (Rooney Mara). Only when he has an epiphany and his use of IT revolutionary technology known as Google Earth 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.
The novel 'A Long Way Home' by Saroo Brierley was adapted for the screen by Luke Davies and directed with great sensitivity by Garth Davis. It is a must see film