Mother-child reunion at the core of Dev Patel's moving new hit

Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman star in the amazing true tale of an Indian boy adopted to Australia, who used Google Earth to find the family he had lost at the age of five, writes Helen Barlow

DEV Patel looks younger than his 26 years. A gangly kind of boy-man with a killer smile and charisma to burn, the London-born actor of Indian descent was keen to take on a more adult role in his new movie Lion.

He has been receiving award nominations for his portrayal as the real life Australian adoptee Saroo Brierley. As a five-year-old while his mother was working on a construction site, he had fallen asleep after jumping aboard a long-distance train in India. He reached Calcutta, but didn’t know enough about where he was from to return there.