Dev Patel to star with Nicole Kidman in 'Lion'

“Slumdog Millionaire” star Dev Patel and Hollywood actress Nicole Kidman are set to star in “Lion,” a new drama produced by The Weinstein Co. The drama, based on the memoir “A Long Way Home” by Saroo Brierley, follows a street kid from Kolkata (Dev) who is taken in and adopted by a couple in Australia, according to Hollywood Reporter. Dev also appears in John Madden's upcoming “The Second Best Marigold Hotel,” the sequel to the 2011 hit, which Fox Searchlight will release in the US next year. In addition, Dev plays self-taught Indian math genius Srinivasa Ramanujan in Matt Brown's period drama “The Man Who Knew Infinity.”