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An 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.
Jun 24, 2013 · A memoir of a boy who was lost in India and adopted by an Australian couple, and how he used Google Earth to find his birth family. Read ratings, reviews, genres, book details and community comments on Goodreads.
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Feb 26, 2017 · The True Story Behind 'Lion' : How Lost Child Saroo Brierley Found His Birth Mother More Than 20 Years Later. Twenty-five years after he was separated from his Indian family, Saroo Brierley...
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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.
Lion is a 2016 Australian biographical drama film directed by Garth Davis (in his feature directorial debut) from a screenplay by Luke Davies based on the 2013 non-fiction book A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley.
Saroo Brierley is the author of A Long Way Home, a true story of how he found his birth family in India after being lost and adopted in Australia. He also inspired the Oscar-winning movie Lion, starring Dev Patel, and shares his motivational talks around the world.
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Jan 19, 2017 · Saroo wrote down his experience - including what happened next - in a memoir that spawned Lion, which opens in the UK and Australia this week.
