The persistence of memory is exceptionally well illustrated

Rating: 9/10 (15 April 2017)

I loved this movie uncritically. It's only upon "thinking" about it as a work of art that my reaction to it (10) is revised to 9. Some bits are too long (what else is new), and the real-life personages that we see in a video at the end look more interesting than their actor counterparts. The child actors who dominate the first part of the movie are wonderfully effective.
Although I've never been lost in the sense of not knowing where to find my family, I identified acutely with the adult Saroo who must wrack his brain and become heavily involved with Google in order to try to find out where he fits into the world. Nearly all of the most important people in my elderly life are persons I met when I was young but "lost" for a very long time thereafter. I can't expect everyone to share my experience of the movie in that way: others will see it through the experience of being a parent or a son, but I believe most will be moved.
India isn't overdone. It's dirty, it's crowded, it's poor -- but we all knew that -- there is no effort to shock us by exaggerating these things, and I appreciate that. Also appreciate their sticking with the languages that would actually have been spoken in the various locales of the story, and using subtitles, instead of doing the whole thing in English and making us figure out when that's a story-telling convenience.