![]() For a week or two, he lived on and around Howrah railway station. Saroo attempted to return home by boarding different trains, but they proved to be suburban trains and each one eventually took him back to Howrah railway station. On the same night as his separation from his brother, unbeknownst to Saroo, Guddu was hit and killed by an oncoming train. Saroo did not know it at the time, but he was nearly 1,500 kilometres (930 mi) from his hometown. Saroo's rail journey eventually ended at the huge Howrah railway station in Calcutta (now known as Kolkata), and he fled when someone opened the door to his carriage. Occasionally the train stopped at small stations, but Saroo was unable to open the door to escape. When he awoke, the train was travelling across an unfamiliar area. Hoping his brother would come for him, he fell asleep. He found there were no doors to the adjoining carriages. He noticed a train parked in the station and, thinking his brother was on it, boarded an empty carriage. Guddu did not return, and Saroo eventually became impatient. Guddu told his little brother to wait and promised to be back shortly. By the time the train reached Burhanpur, Saroo was so tired he collapsed onto a seat on the platform. Saroo asked his older brother if he could go, too. One evening, Guddu said he was going to ride the train from Khandwa to the city of Burhanpur, 70 kilometres (43 mi) to the south. Guddu sometimes obtained work sweeping the floors of train carriages. At age five, Saroo and his elder brothers, Guddu and Kallu, began begging at the railway station for food and money. His mother worked in construction to support herself and her children but often did not make enough money to feed them all, and could not afford to send them to school. When he was young, his father left his mother, throwing the family into poverty. ![]() Saroo Brierley was born Sheru Munshi Khan in Ganesh Talai, a suburb within Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh. His story generated significant international media attention, especially in Australia and India.Īn autobiographical account of his experiences, A Long Way Home, was published in 2013 in Australia, released internationally in 2014, and adapted into the 2016 Oscar-nominated film Lion, starring Sunny Pawar and Dev Patel as Saroo, David Wenham as his adoptive father, John Brierley and Nicole Kidman as his adoptive mother, Sue Brierley. He was adopted by an Australian couple but was reunited with his biological mother 25 years later after finding his hometown via Google Earth. 1981) is an Indian-born Australian businessman and author who, at the age of five, was accidentally separated from his biological family. Ganesh Talai (Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh, India) ![]()
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