love, faith, courage

Rating: 10/10 (27 December 2016)

The movie Lion directed by Garth Davis is awesome. The movie is about a 5 year old boy Saroo and his teenage brother Guddu who do whatever they can to bring home food for their mom and little sister. And then Saroo gets separated from his brother and is lost. Ends up getting adopted by an Australian couple (Nicole Kidman as Sue Brierly and David Wenham as John Brierly).
The story is sad and happy, beautiful and mean . Even after living away from home for 25 years, Saroo remembers his first 5 years of life clearly, life filled with Guddu's caring and loving presence and mom's loving embrace. Mom, brother and sister made his life lovable and something he longed for again. One of my favorite scenes is when young Saroo prays to Goddess , eats the blessed food and after that manages to run away from a "nice" lady who feeds him and cleans him up to sell him to a child peddler. Saroo is blessed because he had excellent upbringing from a mother who loved him and taught her 3 kids how to care and look after each other. Excellent acting, especially Sunny Pawar as young Saroo is terrific and Dev Patel(slumdog millionaire, man who knew infinity )as adult Saroo is excellent, both are Oscar worthy. Script is perfect. Cinematography is nice. Excellent Direction. Oscar worthy .