Saroo Brierley

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Saroo Brierley (* 1981 in Khandwa , India , born Sheru Munshi Khan) is an Australian writer who lived in Tasmania after his adoption and published his own life story as a book in 2014, which has been the subject of media coverage several times. The film Lion: The Long Walk Home by Garth Davis takes up this story, in which Sunny Pawar and Dev Patel star in the role of Saroo Brierley.

Life

Saroo Brierley was born in 1981 as Sheru Munshi Khan in Khandwa . In 1986, when he was five years old, he accidentally fell asleep on a train and woke up about 14 hours later in the unfamiliar city of Calcutta . There he first kept himself afloat for weeks by begging and lived on the street until he came to an orphanage. Because he neither knew the name of the city he came from nor could give a family name, the boy was put up for adoption. The couple who adopted him lived in Tasmania where they took him.

Saroo, who still works for his adoptive parents' company, began as an adult to search for his former home using Google Earth . He scanned the shots of all of India for clues and finally calculated how far he could have driven that night he fell asleep on the train. Finally he drew a correspondingly wide circle around Calcutta and after five to six years of searching came to the place Khandwa in central India. Saroo zoomed in on the map and recognized a lot: a dam south of the city, the three platforms of the train station, a fountain he had played at as a child, and an underpass north of the train station. In addition to Google Earth, he said that Youtube and Facebook also helped him in the course of his search .

Book publication

After Brierley found his family in India in 2012, he published the novel A Long Way Home in 2014 , in which he wrote his life story. The book was also published in German under the title My long way home .

reception

The 2016 film Lion - The Long Walk Home by Garth Davis takes up the narrative of the book and thus Brierley's life story. In the film, Brierley is portrayed as a child by Sunny Pawar and as an adult by Dev Patel .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Little boy lost finds his mother using Google Earth In: bbc.com, April 14, 2012.
  2. ↑ Saudamini Jain: The incredible story of Saroo Brierley In: hindustantimes.com, August 31, 2013.
  3. ↑ About Saroo In: saroobrierley.com. Retrieved August 7, 2016.
  4. ↑ a b Lina Hansen: The real hero behind the Oscar candidate 'Lion' In: wired.de, February 22, 2017.
  5. ↑ After 25 years: Indians find mother thanks to Google Earth In: Spiegel Online, April 16, 2012.
  6. ^ Saroo Brierley: A Long Way Home. A memoir. Penguin 2014 (e-book, Version_1, sine pagina).
  7. ↑ Lost son finds mother with Google Earth ( Memento from August 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: heute.at from August 24, 2014.
  8. ↑ My long way home In: ullsteinbuchverlage.de. Retrieved August 7, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Brierley, Saroo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Khandwa , India