He was reunited with his siblings too, except for his eldest brother, who’d passed away the night Saroo was lost. Almost a year later, he landed up at that tumbledown dwelling, and just as serendipitously as the rest of his life, found his birth mother living just a few metres away. Using his vivid memories, he followed the digital trail to Ganesh Talai in Khandwa, to the very room they lived in. Five years of obsessively poring over much of the Indian landscape later, he finally chanced upon Burhanpur, the railway station from where he’d boarded the train. It helped that his family, especially Sue, were extremely inclusive and open – they chose to adopt two Indian children despite having kids of her own – and when he was about 25, Saroo finally started looking for his Indian family using Google Earth. Saroo, which is how he mispronounced Sheru (hence the film’s name, Lion), stuck, and the boy grew up into a regular Aussie guy – except with very vivid and detailed memories of his childhood in India, including of the way his home and locality looked. Eventually, he was taken in by an orphanage, and from there, he was adopted by Sue and John Brierley of Hobart, Tasmania. Scared, lost and illiterate, he couldn’t communicate enough to ask for help, and somehow survived the streets of that city for months, dodging dangers like abuse and drugs, fighting poverty and starvation. Left alone, he boarded a train that took him to Kolkata. Their father had left their mother and started a family with his second wife. His by-now-famous story is that in 1986, Saroo was Sheru Munshi Khan, a five-year-old from a poor family in Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh, out for the night at a nearby railway station with his older brother. But 'Lion' is a real-life story, and the man whom Dev portrays, the Australian Saroo Brierley, has been a global celebrity long before Hollywood happened to him. Those hopes are even higher now that Dev's won the Best Supporting Actor award at the BAFTAs for this role.
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