Actor Dev Patel was in Dubai on Tuesday to be honoured as one of the Chivas Icons at the H Hotel venue Play. The 27-year-old has been having a very good year.
The Brit earned a best supporting actor Academy Award nomination for his turn in the real-life tale Lion, in which he portrayed Saroo Brierly, who was adopted byRead more
The Dev Patel who greets me to talk about his latest, Golden Globe-nominated performance is barely recognisable as the happy-go-lucky kid who fluked his way to a fortune in Slumdog Millionaire almost a decade ago. At 26, Patel appears double the size of his teenage self — thanks to an eight-month daily gym regime — and his hair is a luxuriant maneRead more
The true story of a young boy separated from his family and his 25-year journey to find them in Garth Davis’s first film “Lion” roared at the Toronto film festival Sunday.
Adapted from Saroo Brierley’s autobiography “A Long Way Home,” the film stars Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman and Rooney Mara, who is also appearing at the festival in “Una” andRead more