moving. spell-binding

Rating: 8/10 (6 January 2019)

Nothing could prepare one for the emotional experience of watching this movie. Overwhelmed by tears that would heed to no reason. The little Sunny Powar tugs at your heartstrings and you weep as if he's your own. You walk with him, see the world through his eyes, see him too and you melt in all that this kid personifies. His intuitive sense of things that are beyond what he can understand, to be able to catch the whiff of danger and to flee every time, his strength and bravery, even at that young an age. Telling the tale that memories don't die. They come back at an unexpected moment to haunt you. A visual of something long forgotten. A fleeting fragrance. The weapons with the power to kindle violence in the mind. As Saroo struggles with his yearning for a past long lost, you cry with him. You want him to find them. You want him to get all that he seeks. In that moment when he has all but given up, on that last thread of the rope he's been hanging on, he looks outside his box. He dares to look beyond logic and there it is, the past right before his eyes. Daring to go back to a hurting past and finding love - an incredibly beautiful journey that you are fortunate to be part of. There you learn, although you cried that the child was separated from his brother and mother, how many more lives has he touched because of that fateful incident. Had he stayed there on that station, it might have been a life of forgotten misery without the guiding light of his brother. But now fate propels him to bless the lives of souls far-away and through his movie, touch the hearts of many. A roaring tale of love and perseverance.