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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 .
There he met Saroo's Indian family, and travelled with Saroo on a rail journey across India, retracing for the first time the journey that Saroo took two and a half decades before as a young child, that ended him in Calcutta (now Kolkata). Buttrose completed the book in his Kolkata hotel room.
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.
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 .
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)
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Anh's Brush with Fame, also known as Anh Do's Brush With Fame, is an Australian television series, first broadcast on the ABC starting 24 August 2016. The program features comedian Anh Do painting a portrait of a celebrity while interviewing his subject.
Saroo Brierley (born c. 1981), Indian/Australian businessman and author, subject of Lion Thomas Brierley (1785–1855), British Freemason whose gravestone became a mystery Tom Brierley (1910–1989), English and Canadian cricket player