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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. He was adopted out of India by an Australian couple but was reunited with his original family 25 years later after finding his hometown via Google Earth .
Saroo is taught basic English and moves to Hobart, Tasmania, in 1987, under the care of Sue and John Brierley, where he slowly starts to settle into his new lifestyle. A year later, they adopt another boy, Mantosh, who has trouble adjusting to his new home and suffers from rage and self-harm .
A Long Way Home is a non-fiction book by Indian-Australian businessman Saroo Brierley written together with Larry Buttrose. The text was initially released in Australia on 24 June 2013 via Viking , then re-released internationally in 2014, and adapted into a major film in 2016.
The story follows Saroo Brierley (Dev Patel) as he uses the app to find his family 25 years after being separated from them. Have tissues at the ready. Watch Here
His best known book is A Long Way Home, the Saroo Brierley memoir, which he ghost-wrote in 2012. He researched and wrote the book between September and December of that year, including research trips to Hobart to interview Saroo and his family, and a month-long journey to India with Saroo.
Keshav Jadhav and Divian Ladwa as Mantosh Brierley in Lion (2016) Sunny Pawar and Dev Patel as Saroo Brierley in Lion (2016) Josh Hutcherson and Dax Shepard as Walter Budwing/The Astronaut in Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005) Dominic Savage and Leon Vitali as Lord Bullingdon in Barry Lyndon (1975)
A Long Way Home, a 2013 autobiography by Saroo Brierley; The Long Way Home or Keepers of the House, a 1982 novel by Lisa St Aubin de Terán; The Long Way Home (Buffy comic), a Buffy the Vampire Slayer comic book series; The Long Way Home, a novel by Poul Anderson
The town was featured in the 2016 Australian biographical film Lion, which was based on the extraordinary search for his birth family by Khandwa-born Saroo Brierley, who got lost as a child and ended up in Australia after being adopted.