![]() While away at school in Melbourne in a hotel management program in 2008, Saroo, triggered by a sensory touchstone, begins to remember that he didn't actually grow up in Calcutta, but somewhere else in India - he remembering the name "Ganestalay", probably a mispronunciation of an actual geographic place or an unofficial name of a neighborhood - one of three offspring of a single, illiterate mother, he, having been separated from his older brother Guddu one night at the local train station, stumbling onto an empty train in searching for a comfortable place to sleep which led to his unexpected two day journey to Calcutta. While Saroo eventually adjusted well to the situation of life within a white family in Australia, Mantosh, suffering from ADHD, never did despite the support of the family, especially Sue. At the time, Saroo, solely speaking Hindi and not Bengali as would be expected from the location, was discovered alone on the streets of Calcutta, a search for his biological family which yielded nothing. Saroo Brierley grew up one of two adopted sons of South Asian descent of Caucasian couple Sue and John Brierley in Hobart, Tasmania, Saroo, approaching age six, joining the family in 1987, his brother, Mantosh Brierley, joining the family one year later. He spends the night in the station with some street-children, but is then woken up and forced to run when a group of men try to kidnap them. He stands at a ticket counter and tries to obtain a ticket home, but the attendant does not recognize the name of his village, which Saroo says is "Genestalay". ![]() After several days, it arrives in faraway Calcutta, where he does not understand the local Bengali language. He falls asleep again in one of the compartments, and wakes up to find the train in motion. When Guddu does not return, Saroo searches for him and boards a train presuming Guddu is aboard. Guddu tries to wake him up, but Saroo is too tired. One day, Saroo follows his brother to a job and they arrive at a nearby train station, where Saroo decides to stay back and take a nap. Guddu and Saroo steal coal from freight trains to trade for milk and food. In 1986, Saroo, a five-year-old boy, lives with his elder brother Guddu, his mother and his younger sister in Khandwa, India. Now Saroo becomes obsessed to find his mother Kamla and his siblings. ![]() He tells the story of his childhood and triggers the feeling of missing his family. He is raised with love by his foster parents and one day, he goes to an Indian party promoted by his Indian mates from the university with his girlfriend Lucy. In 1987, Saroo is adopted by an Australian family and moves to Hobart, Tasmania. One day, a young man brings Saroo to the police station and he is sent of an institution for children. Saroo does not speak Bengali, only Hindi, and lives on the street of the big city. He sleeps again and he wakes up in Calcutta, West Bengal, and 1,600 km east of Khandwa. However the boy wakes up in the middle of the night and decides to seek out his brother in a train. Guddu leaves Saroo sleeping on a bank in the station and asks him to stay there until he returns. One night, Saroo insists on going with Guddu to his work and does not resist and sleeps. Kamla works carrying stones during the night shift and Guddu also works in the night in the Central Station. Kenneth Chisholm 1986, in Khandwa, India, the 5 year-old boy Saroo lives a very poor but happy life with his mother Kamla, his older brother Guddu and his younger sister Shekila. Only when he has an epiphany does he realize not only the answers he needs, but also the steadfast love that he has always had with all his loved ones in both worlds. However, for all his material good fortune, Saroo finds himself plagued by his memories of his lost family in his adulthood and tries to search for them even as his guilt drives him to hide this quest from his adoptive parents and his girlfriend. Soon, Saroo is selected to be adopted by the Brierley family in Tasmania, where he grows up in a loving, prosperous home. Now totally lost in an alien urban environment and too young to identify either himself or his home to the authorities, Saroo struggles to survive as a street child until he is sent to an orphanage. On a trip with his brother, Saroo soon finds himself alone and trapped in a moving decommissioned passenger train that takes him to Calcutta, 1000 miles away from home. In 1986, Saroo was a five-year-old child in India of a poor but happy rural family. 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family. A five-year-old Indian boy is adopted by an Australian couple after getting lost hundreds of kilometers from home.
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