Saroo’s story seems to have come out of fiction; really became a hit movie called Lion?A trip home. The best thing is that, as is sometimes the case in cinema, this young man had to go through dramatic and moving situations, but it all ended with a happy ending.
Saroo’s incredible adventure began in a small Indian village called Khandwa. At the time, the boy was 5 years old and part of a very humble family. The father had abandoned them to live with another woman; The mother, Ganesh, was going to make a living as a construction worker, but her income was not enough to support the family.
- In total.
- There were three children.
- Including Saroo.
- The eldest son.
- Guddu.
- Was 10 years old and doing occasional work to help his mother.
- They often hired him to sweep the cars.
- Then there was Saroo.
- Who on several occasions accompanied his older brother to work; the youngest was a girl who was starting to walk.
“We split up to see each other again” – John Gay-
On the day Saroo’s story marked forever, the two brothers set to work sweeping cars at Burhanpur station. The day was exhausting and little Saroo was so tired that he sat on one of the station benches and ended up falling asleep. life forever.
When he woke up, he didn’t see his older brother anywhere, then he started shouting his name, but he didn’t show up, the boy saw a train in front of the station and, knowing that his brother Guddu was sweeping the car, went looking for him. Guddu wasn’t there and no one answered his calls. The train departed for Calcutta and Saroo’s life split in two.
Meanwhile, at home, the mother was waiting for the two children to arrive, but they never came back. For his part, he began to investigate, in his free time, what had happened. Two months passed and he learned that Guddu, the eldest. son, had been found dead. He was on a track and a train broke his body in half.
Saroo arrived in Kolkata 14 hours after getting on the train, he didn’t even speak well and didn’t know the name of the town where he lived, so when he arrived at the station he wanted to get back on the train. , but it was impossible. He stayed in this station, sleeping between boxes and eating garbage.
There was a gang that kidnapped street children and tried to kidnap him, ran as fast as he could and managed to escape, but didn’t want to go back to the station.
Memories of those days are of hunger and anguish, it is unclear how it all happened, but a teenager eventually took him to the police station, from there he was sent to an orphanage that had very strict rules.
They tried to find their families, but it was impossible, some time later he entered an adoption program and was fortunate to be adopted by an Australian family with another Indian child, who also had no financial resources, his life changed completely when he traveled to Tasmania with his new parents.
Saroo could not forget the past he had left behind, he still remembered his older brother, his mother and his younger sister.
When he was in college, a group of friends and his girlfriend decided to help him find crucial information: the city where he came from, they did the calculations for the cities that were 2 p. m. Calcutta and I started searching Google Earth.
Another five years earlier, one day, Saroo saw a water tower on the computer that looked familiar, explored nearby places and something in his memories began to activate, then recognized a road and a bridge. He said he jumped with joy at the time, for there he was sure that there was his origin.
The next step in Saroo’s story was to travel to his small town and start looking, by intuition he arrived at his mother’s house, but no one else lived there, although he has forgotten his mother tongue, manages to gather information and finally, one day, he arrives at the door of the place where his mother lived.
She looked at him for a few minutes and then recognized him. Saroo says the meeting, after 25 years, was the happiest moment of his life.
Soon after, he learned that his name was not “Saroo” but “Sheru”; he couldn’t pronounce it correctly when he was little. The name? Sheru means “lion”. A year later, he returned to the stage with his adoptive mother and ended this cycle of free tips and long-awaited hugs.