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After some time, he was adopted by an Australian couple John Brierley and Sue Brierley. The couple adopted one another Indian boy Mantosh and took both of them to Hobart (Australia) with them. Saroo Brierley’s Adoptive Family
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.
Saroo Brierley, an Indian-Australian businessman, is married to an American woman named Lisa Williams. They met in college and have been together ever since. In the movie based on his life, Rooney Mara plays a character whose name was changed to Lucy.
Few life stories involve such impossible odds, incredible love, and sheer determination as Saroo Brierley's.
At the age of five, Saroo (who is played by child actor Sunny Pawar in the film) is separated from his family on a train and winds up alone in Kolkata; after living on the street for three weeks, he’s placed in an orphanage and eventually adopted by an Australian couple, Sue and John Brierley.
John, Sue and Saroo (middle) Brierley. Joel Barhamand. Brierley grew up in a happy home a stone's throw away from the beach, and his parents later adopted another boy from India.
After fending for himself on the streets, five-year-old Saroo made it to an orphanage, where he was adopted by Australian couple Sue and John Brierley to begin a new life in Tasmania.
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 extraordinary life of Saroo Brierley captured hearts around the world in the movie Lion, but very little has been known about his mother, Sue, until now. Samantha Trenoweth meets the ‘lioness’ whose fierce courage and unconditional love were forged in her own traumatic childhood.
Brierley tells NPR's Arun Rath about his years-long search for his family and their emotional reunion.