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Saroo Brierley (born c. 1981) is an Indian-born Australian businessman and author who, at the age of five, was accidentally separated from his biological family.
When Saroo Brierley used Google Earth to find his long-lost home town half a world away, he made global headlines. Saroo had become lost on a train in India at the age of five.
Nov 21, 2016 · We compare the Lion movie to the true story of Saroo Brierley and his Google Earth journey. Meet the real Saroo, his mom Sue Brierley and his birth mother Fatima.
Apr 21, 2019 · Nicole Kidman played his mother. It shot Sunny Pawar (a young boy from a Mumbai slum, who played young Saroo) to fame. Lion, the film adaptation of Brierley's memoir, was released in 2016 to critical acclaim and garnered six Oscar nominations. It sent the already well-known story into the stratosphere.
Jan 19, 2017 · After fending for himself on the streets, five-year-old Saroo made it to an orphanage, where he was adopted by Australian couple Sue and John Brierley to begin a new life in Tasmania.
Feb 26, 2017 · Twenty-five years after he was separated from his Indian family, Saroo Brierley found his way back home, and to the birth mother he left behind
Saroo Brierley was born in an Indian town called Khandwa. In 1986, aged only 5, he lost all contact with his family when he was at a train station waiting for his brother who never returned. After living on the streets of Calcutta for 3 weeks by himself, he then got placed into a local orphanage where an Australian family adopted Saroo.
For more than a quarter century, Saroo Brierley searched for his family before finding his way back home with the help of Google Earth. It's an incredible true story of hope, determination and technology.
Jun 22, 2014 · When Saroo Brierley was 4, he hopped on the wrong train in rural India, losing his way and his family. But as he recounts in A Long Way Home, Google Earth helped him return...
Feb 3, 2017 · Saroo Brierley is the Indian-born man whose life story has been turned into Lion, which is nominated for six Academy Awards. As a young boy, Mr Brierley was accidentally separated from his brother while travelling on a train in India and, unable to explain his plight, couldn't return home and was adopted by a couple in Australia.
