The first half is AMAZING

The young lead, Sunny Pawar is terrific (as are all the young children), the pace, story and settings are top notch.It's completely involving and riveting, keeping you locked to the screen. Terrific film making.The second half not so much. The film really falters and seems sluggish and redundant. The pace drags and seems to be stuck. Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman are good but the direction seems to get bogged down and can't figure out where to go.it seems to be stuck in the same dilema over and over. The scenes with the girlfriend don't work but the scenes with Ms. Kidman work well and would like to have had more of her and less of the mediocre girlfriend and less of the unending angst from Patel's character, which does not seem genuine.