Mumbai: Filmmaker Karan Johar says he cried his heart out after watching Nicole Kidman starer ‘Lion’.
‘Lion’, which features an international cast led by Rooney Mara and British actor of Indian origin Dev Patel, apart from Indian actors like Deepti Naval, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Priyanka Bose and Nawazuddin Siddiqui, is a heart-wrenching true story of a couple who adopt a lost Indian boy – Saroo Brierley, and help him find his birth mother.
Karan also hailed Dev for portraying the role with conviction.
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The movie is based on non-fiction book ‘A Long Way Home’ by Brierley. Releasing in India on February 24, 2017, ‘Lion’ has been shot in Kolkata as well as in Australia.
IANS