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Saroo Brierley may be the subject of the Best Picture nominee Lion at this month’s Academy Awards, but for now his adoptive mother Sue is just “waiting for him to move out of my spare room ...
The story of Saroo Brierley, told in his 2013 memoir “A Long Way Home” and in the new film “Lion,” is hard to believe. In 1986, finding himself separated from his older brother — after ...
Garth Davis’ “Lion” tells the story of Saroo Brierley’s amazing journey from India to Australia at age 5 and his all but miraculous reunion with his birth mother decades later.
'Lion' producer Iain Canning discusses finding Saroo Brierley's story and what made Dev Patel the right choice for the film's lead.
Editor’s note: Four years before the movie “Lion” was released, two Associated Press reporters told the story of Saroo Brierley’s complicated reunion with his mother, Fatima Munshi. This ...
The movie is based on the true story of Saroo Brierley, a 35-year-old Indian-Australian man who, at the age of 5, found himself lost in Calcutta, 1,000 miles away from his village in central India.
It's the type of nightmare scenario every Southern California hiker fears — you're walking alone on a trail when suddenly, a ...
ANYONE who’s read or listened to Saroo Brierley’s extraordinary true story since it first came to light in 2012 has been blown away by his tale. Saroo was born in 1981 in India to a poor mum ...
Saroo Brierley, whose life changed after a train journey he took at age 5, tells Anand Raj OK what it means to be lost, his thoughts on the Nicole Kidman-Dev Patel movie that was made on his life ...