Lion. The Road to Home ”is a 2016 film directed by Garth Davis and inspired by the true story of Saroo Brierley, who at the age of five got lost in Calcutta, about 1,600 kilometers from home. He was later adopted by an Australian family. Only 25 years later he was able to find his biological mother and then told the story of him in the book ” The long way to go home “, from which the film was based. The true story of Saroo
Saroo was born in 1981 in Ganesh Talai, a suburb of Khandwa. When he was a child, his father left his mother for another woman, throwing the family into poverty. In addition to his mother, Kamla Munshi, Saroo lived with older brothers Guddu and Kallu and sister Shekila. In 1986, one evening Guddu took the train to Burhanpur, a city 70 kilometers to the south. At Saroo’s insistence, I also take his little brother with me. Arriving in Burhanpur, Saroo fell asleep on a bench on the quay, while Guddu reached his workplace. When he wakes up, Saroo can no longer find Guddu, and looking for him, he gets on a train parked in the station, where he falls asleep again. When he woke up, the train was traveling and the carriage doors were locked. So Saroo was only able to get off the train once he got to Howrah station, the largest Indian railway station, just outside Calcutta. It was more than 1,200 kilometers as the crow flies and nearly 1,600 kilometers by road from home. On the same night, however, Guddu was hit and killed by a train about a kilometer from Burhanpur station.Adoption
Saroo did not speak the Calcutta language and I try to get home by boarding different trains. But they turned out to be suburban trains, always returning to Howrah. He lived first near the station, then as a homeless man in the streets of Calcutta. He was taken to a police station, which sent him to a government center for abandoned children. After a few weeks, he was transferred to the Indian Sponsorship and Adoption Society, which tried in vain to locate his family. In 1987, he was then adopted by the Australian Brierley family, who lived in Hobart, Tasmania. A new life in Australia
Meanwhile, the mother is looking for her two children and a few weeks after their disappearance, she was informed by the police of the discovery of Guddu’s body. Since Saroo’s body had not been found, Kamla continued to search for her in vain. Saroo grew up in Hobart, I learn English and I forget Hindi. He then studied economics and hotel management at the Angliss International Hotel School in Canberra. The finding of the family
As an adult, I begin to conduct research on his hometown, estimating the possible distance of his departure station from Howrah. He relied on the vague memories he had and used satellite imagery from Google Earth to try to identify the correct station. Finally, in 2011, he managed to identify the Burhanpur station and find the city of Khandwa, whose name he did not remember, but which contained recognizable elements. In 2012 Saroo then went to Khandwa and finally managed, on February 12 of that year, more than 25 years after his death, to find his biological mother, sister and surviving brother.

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