"Artistic, compelling; leaves a lump in your throat at times, makes you yearn for more at times..."
It is not everyday that a tale of loss and grief has a happy ending, atleast the odds are stacked against if you're away from your biological family since the age of 5 and in a different continent- eons away.
It is not everyday that you see a real life incident which moves you and gives you the lesson on what the meaning of family is. What it is like to play together, eat together, sleep together, breathe together.
Lion is an engaging tale of human grit and the sense of redemption. Garth Davis' directorial debut has its heart in the right place...throughout. The casting is stupendous. Sunny Pawar (the young Saroo) gives a hear wrenching performance and then the story moves to the more uninteresting part where Dev Patel(adult Saroo) finally comes to terms with being neglectful of his family for 20 years and starts hunting them using Google Earth.
The film starts of with the trials and tribulations of the young Saroo, who is left stranded on a platform and finds himself on a train enroute Kolkata. Kolkata is unwelcoming and Saroo with all his luck finds himself coming out of the shackles of the city, unscathed, well almost. He gets admitted to an orphanage which eventually leads him to his adopted parents (Nicole Kidman and David Wenham) who take him to Tasmania.
As the story takes a leap of 20 years, the mature Saroo (Dev Patel), completes his hotel management studies from Melbourne. Despite garnering success in his life, he is constantly forlornly about his home in India, all he remembers of it is a village called Ganeshtalay. His crises is compounded by his erratic and capricious stepbrother.
Saroo has flashbacks of his part (of his mother working at a construction site and his brother leaving him at the railway station). Darwis beautifully shows this via time warp and it is in sync with the mental conflict of the protagonist. As Saroo has hidden his love for his first world and home from his adoptive parents and girlfriend (Rooney Maara), it takes an epiphany for his to hunt for his original home in India.
Weeks of efforts interspersed with guilt and the need for redemption, he finally finds Ganeshtalay on the map and thus homecoming beckons. He eventually reaches home and meets his biological mother (Priyanka Bose; excellent), who identifies him and the tears roll out.
A tried script is made beautiful because it is a real story with the characters alive and shows the power of emotions and of course technology. To add to it the cinematography and the performances of the central characters, Lion is the fable depicting undeterred human spirit and love for one's family.
It is not everyday that a tale of loss and grief has a happy ending, atleast the odds are stacked against if you're away from your biological family since the age of 5 and in a different continent- eons away.
It is not everyday that you see a real life incident which moves you and gives you the lesson on what the meaning of family is. What it is like to play together, eat together, sleep together, breathe together.
Lion is an engaging tale of human grit and the sense of redemption. Garth Davis' directorial debut has its heart in the right place...throughout. The casting is stupendous. Sunny Pawar (the young Saroo) gives a hear wrenching performance and then the story moves to the more uninteresting part where Dev Patel(adult Saroo) finally comes to terms with being neglectful of his family for 20 years and starts hunting them using Google Earth.
The film starts of with the trials and tribulations of the young Saroo, who is left stranded on a platform and finds himself on a train enroute Kolkata. Kolkata is unwelcoming and Saroo with all his luck finds himself coming out of the shackles of the city, unscathed, well almost. He gets admitted to an orphanage which eventually leads him to his adopted parents (Nicole Kidman and David Wenham) who take him to Tasmania.
As the story takes a leap of 20 years, the mature Saroo (Dev Patel), completes his hotel management studies from Melbourne. Despite garnering success in his life, he is constantly forlornly about his home in India, all he remembers of it is a village called Ganeshtalay. His crises is compounded by his erratic and capricious stepbrother.
Saroo has flashbacks of his part (of his mother working at a construction site and his brother leaving him at the railway station). Darwis beautifully shows this via time warp and it is in sync with the mental conflict of the protagonist. As Saroo has hidden his love for his first world and home from his adoptive parents and girlfriend (Rooney Maara), it takes an epiphany for his to hunt for his original home in India.
Weeks of efforts interspersed with guilt and the need for redemption, he finally finds Ganeshtalay on the map and thus homecoming beckons. He eventually reaches home and meets his biological mother (Priyanka Bose; excellent), who identifies him and the tears roll out.
A tried script is made beautiful because it is a real story with the characters alive and shows the power of emotions and of course technology. To add to it the cinematography and the performances of the central characters, Lion is the fable depicting undeterred human spirit and love for one's family.
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