Dev Patel overwhelmed with Oscar nomination for Lion

• Eastern Eye Staff
• 25 January, 2017

By: Eastern Eye Staff

British actor Dev Patel, who received an Oscar nomination in the supporting actor category for “Lion” on Tuesday (24), said he is feeling “overwhelmingly grateful” The London-born actor, who shot to fame with Danny Boyle’s 2009 Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire, plays an Australian-Indian who tries to find his lost family in India through the help of Google map “I’m sitting here with my mouth wide open figuring out how this happened. I’m feeling overwhelmingly grateful right now,” Patel told BBC following the nomination Lion is based on the real life memoir of Saroo Brierley titled ‘A Long Way Home’ and…

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