Burberry and The Weinstein Company Honor Dev Patel and Lion in LA
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Patel is a versatile actor best known for his breakout role in the Oscar winning film Slumdog Millionaire. Since then, Patel has starred in critically praised features including The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and the sequel, The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, and most recently The Man Who Knew Infinity, opposite Jeremy Irons. Patel also starred on the small screen in the Aaron Sorkin, HBO drama Newsroom Patel is currently in production in India on Hotel Mumbai about the terror attack at the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in 2008.
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The Weinstein Company film Lion is based on the harrowing true story of a young Indian boy who is separated from his family and eventually adopted to an Australian couple in Tasmania. The movie chronicles the persistence of its main character, Saroo, as a child destined to survive in the streets of India and then as an adult in a desperate search to reunite with his birth family in India over 25 years later. The film also stars Nicole Kidman and Rooney Mara and directed by Australian filmmaker Garth Davis.
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