His name means "Lion", orphan searches for his home in India.

Rating: Null/10 (7 June 2017)

My wife and I watched this at home on DVD from our public library. It is a well-made movie of an essentially true story, it shows the connections humans can make with each other.
The story originates in a small village in India, young Saroo's mother is so poor she carries rocks to earn some money to feed the small family. Saroo's brother is going to a nearby town to work at night, after much begging brings Saroo, 5, along with him. But the boy is too young, he cannot stay awake, when he does wake up can't find his brother and ends up on a train being taken out of service and headed 1000 miles away to Calcutta. Once there Saroo finds that he cannot even speak their language, cannot explain where he is from, and ends up in an orphanage in 1986.
Nicole Kidman is Australian Sue Brierley, married but without children. When she was but 12, we eventually learn, she had a vision of a small brown boy coming up to her, she interpreted that as a message. As an adult she and her husband decided there were already enough children in the world, they would adopt orphans from India instead of having their own.
Dev Patel plays the grownup Saroo Brierley, some 20+ years later in Tasmania. He loves his adopted mom and dad but never quit having the visions of his home and family all those years ago. Eventually, using Google Earth on his computer, with a lot of persistence, he tracks down his place of origin.
In a nice touch the end of the film includes clips of the real Saroo and his adopted Australian mom in his original village in India, meeting up with those he had left behind all those years earlier.
A very worthwhile movie.