![]() It has been largely well reviewed, and has earned cast and crew multiple nominations and awards, but it chugs into the Oscars as a longshot contender. Directed by Garth Davis, it stars Sunny Pawar and Dev Patel as young and older Saroo respectively, and Nicole Kidman and David Wenham as his adoptive parents. Lion’s box office numbers speak, too: it is now roaring past a $100m take. “We were tactile, using our hands and faces to express what we felt. The memory of her face had been embedded in my mind for such a long time.”įatima did not speak English and he had forgotten his Hindi. ![]() She knew who I was, and I knew who she was. A mother like her would not have forgotten one of her children’s looks. I still have that sort of babyface within me. “She saw my face, after 25 years of separation. “It was such a pivotal moment,” he recalls, seated in a low chair high above the LA traffic. In February 2012 he travelled there and – spoiler alert – found his biological mother, Fatima. Saroo – by now a robust, happy, windsurfing, fully fledged Aussie – used Google Earth, a handful of visual memories and immense dedication to identify his home town: Khandwa, in central India. Photograph: Allstar/Screen AustraliaĪ quarter-century later came the implausible twist. He was later taken in by an orphanage, and was eventually adopted by an Australian couple, Sue and John Brierley, who took him to start a new life in Tasmania. He lived as a street urchin and survived on his wits and scraps of food. Unable to speak Bengali, and unaware of the name of his home town, he had no way to return. It tells the story of how, in 1986, Saroo, an illiterate, impoverished five-year-old in rural central India, got separated from his brother at a railway station in Burhanpur, and accidentally ended up alone on a train that took him almost a thousand miles to Kolkata (then called Calcutta). “The feelgood movie we all need,” blares the promotional blurb, and for once the hype may be justified. The story of his life, Lion, is up for six Oscars, including best picture. That is quite a feat, given his stake in this year’s awards. I’m sitting back, listening, you know, taking it in day by day.” But I just don’t really want to get into it. “You can really submerge yourself in it and get lost – let it cloud you. 'We urge you to step behind the headlines and have a read of this absorbing account.With clear recollections and good old-fashioned storytelling, Saroo.Brierley, casual in a white T-shirt and black jeans, shrugs off the frenzy. Saroo's return journey will leave you weeping with joy and the strength of the human spirit' Manly Daily (Australia) 'I literally could not put this book down. 'A remarkable story' Sydney Morning Herald Review 'So incredible that sometimes it reads like a work of fiction' Winnipeg Free Press (Canada) Lion is a triumphant true story of survival against all odds and a shining example of the extraordinary feats we can achieve when hope endures. And how, at thirty years old, with some dogged determination, a heap of good luck and the power of Google Earth, he found his way back home. How he then ended up in Tasmania, living the life of an upper-middle-class Aussie. ![]() How he ended up on the streets of Calcutta. This is the story of what happened to Saroo in those twenty-five years. ![]() until the day he boarded a train alone and got lost. Twenty-five years later, I crossed the world to find my way back home.įive-year-old Saroo lived in a poor village in India, in a one-room hut with his mother and three siblings. Lion is the heartbreaking and inspiring original true story of the lost little boy who found his way home twenty-five years later and is now a major film starring Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman and Rooney Mara.Īs a five-year old in India, I got lost on a train.
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