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Ratings:3.5/5 Review By:Rajeev MasandSite:CNN News 18

What it doesnt hold back on is wringing every available drop of emotion from the big pay-off in the end. Because its a true story you know where things are heading, but in no way does that lessen the impact of this film that so effectively addresses themes of loss, love, and our understanding of family.I was sobbing by the end, and I think you will be too. Im going with three and a half out of five for Lion.

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Ratings:3.5/5 Review By:Anupama Chopra Site:Filmcompanion

Lion is a story so far-fetched that it could have come from the imagination of Manmohan Desai except that its true.As Saroo, Dev Patel finds a depth and heft that he has never had before. His heartfelt performance keeps you invested. Nicole Kidman also gets one knock-out scene in which she wrings your heart out. But ultimately this film belongs to the sparkling Sunny Pawar. Hes unforgettable.

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Ratings:4.5/5 Review By:Nihit Site:Times Of India

Director Garth Davis’ six Oscar nominated debut feature film is a gut-wrenching true story that tugs at your heartstrings. Do take a bunch of tissues along for this one’s an absolute tear-jerker. Sad yet uplifting, frightening yet inspirational, Lion breaks your heart into a thousand pieces and puts them back together in the end. It makes you believe in miracles and embrace hardships by celebrating courage and resilience in its own unique way.

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Ratings:3.5/5 Review By:Mihir Site:Firstpost

In any case this is an effective drama with themes universal in nature. The most fundamentally basic human characteristic is to reach out to ones family and theres nothing more heartbreaking to see the bond ripped apart by forces alien to the human. Its also a film that is an ode to Googles services a technology that generally doesnt get as much appreciation as it should. Bring some tissues to the theater because youre going to need them during a montage of a computer screen and the dusty Khanwa landscapes in the third act.

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Ratings:4/5 Review By:Saibal Chaterjee Site:NDTV

Lion will certainly be remembered forever as a watershed in Dev Patel’s career. He invests minimum visible effort in conveying the inner workings of a mind see-sawing between two mothers. v Nicole Kidman is as consistently good in Lion as she has ever been in recent years. In a scene in which her character explains to Saroo why she chose not to have children of her own, she brings a lump to the throat.Lion isn’t a thunderous roar. It’s more a soulful, reassuring purr that reverberates gently into the recesses of the heart, curls up in a cozy place, and works its subtle magic. In one word, magnificent.

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Ratings:5/5 Review By:Rohan Site:Hindustan Times

These arent pleasant thoughts, and in that respect, Lion is not a pleasant film, however cathartic that ending may be. But thank God it exists. We need more films like it, like Slumdog, to shame us into being better by showing us our worst, and to inspire us into being brave, by showing us our best. €œWe swan about in our privileged lives€¦ It makes me sick!€ splutters Saroo in the film to his girlfriend. This is the truth that we have been avoiding all our lives. Its back. Itll keep coming back. Whatre you going to do about it?

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