Dev Patel doesn't appear until nearly an hour into Lion – but when he does his strong, soulful, Oscar-buzzed performance cuts deep. The film is based on Saroo Brierley's bestselling memoir A Long Way Home, about a five-year-old Indian boy, raised in abject poverty, who falls asleep on a train and ends 1,600 miles away in Calcutta. With only a child's memory
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