The performances are excellent, with 8-year old Pawar, lighting every scene with his delightful smile, the standout. It is an effective, pleasurably melodramatic film – I challenge anyone to see it without reaching for the tissue box. Despite the length of the film, the construction of the story is economic enough to maintain the viewer’s interest throughout.Įight-year-old Sunny Pawar, who plays a young Saroo Brierley, is the film’s standout. The score by Volker Bertelmann and Dustin O'Halloran is emotively symphonic without a surplus of schmaltz. The photography balances beautiful, epic shots of the Indian and Tasmanian landscapes with pathos-laden close-ups of the main characters. The technical elements of the film are perfectly realised.
On the way he falls in love with Lucy (Rooney Mara). In the second half of the film we follow adult Saroo (Dev Patel) as he sets off on his obsessive quest to find his family. He ekes out a living as a beggar, narrowly avoiding enslavement as a child prostitute, before winding up in an orphanage, whence he is adopted by Australian couple Sue (Nicole Kidman) and John (David Wenham). Not speaking the common language of Bengali, he’s unable to converse with anyone. The first half follows the imperiled Saroo as a young boy (Sunny Pawar) who finds himself lost in the urban nightmare of Calcutta, thousands of kilometres from home. 25 years later, he uses Google Earth to locate his home village and is reunited with his birth mother. An Australian production written by Luke Davies ( Candy) and adapted from Saroo Brierly’s memoir A Long Way Home (2013), it follows the remarkable true story of an Indian boy who, lost in Calcutta, is adopted by an Australian couple and grows up in Tasmania. Lion is a well-made film starring Dev Patel, Rooney Mara, Nicole Kidman and David Wenham.
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