She then tells him that an Australian couple is interested in adopting him.

Three months later, Saroo is introduced to Mrs Sood, who tells him she has placed an advertisement about him in several local newspapers, but no one has responded. Unable to trace his family, they put him in an orphanage. After two months of living near the Howrah Bridge, Saroo is taken to the police by a young man. Saroo runs away, sensing that Noor and Rama have sinister intentions, and escapes Noor when she chases after him. She tells Saroo that a man named Rama will help him find his way home. Saroo continues to wander around the city before coming across Noor, a seemingly friendly woman who takes him back to her apartment. He spends the night in the station with some street children, but is then woken up and forced to run when a group of men try to kidnap them. He stands at a ticket counter and tries to obtain a ticket home, but the attendant does not recognise the name of his village, which Saroo says is 'Ganestalay'. After several days the train arrives in faraway Calcutta where 5-year-old Saroo does not understand the local Bengali language. There he falls asleep again in one of the compartments, only to awake sometime later to find the train in motion and the doors locked. Saroo searches the station for Guddu and gets on an empty train looking for him. Saroo promptly falls asleep and when he wakes up Guddu is not there. Guddu places Saroo on a bench and tells him to wait for his return. Guddu refuses at first yet finally relents, and they arrive at a nearby train station where Saroo is too tired to stay awake. One night Saroo pesters his brother who is going to work overnight to let him come too. Guddu and Saroo steal coal from freight trains to trade for milk and food. In 1986, Saroo, a five-year-old boy, lives with his elder brother Guddu, his mother and his younger baby sister in Khandwa, India. The film was also commercially successful, making $140 million worldwide, becoming one of the highest-grossing Australian films of all time. It won two BAFTA Awards for Best Supporting Actor (Patel) and Best Adapted Screenplay. Lion was well-received by critics, with praise for the acting (particularly from Patel and Kidman), emotional weight, visuals, cinematography and screenplay it received six Oscar nominations at the 89th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Patel), Best Supporting Actress (Kidman), and Best Adapted Screenplay. It was released in Australia on 19 January 2017 and in the United Kingdom on 20 January 2017.

The film, which had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on 10 October 2016, was given a limited release in North America on 25 November 2016, by The Weinstein Company before opening generally on 6 January 2017. It is a joint production between Australia and the United Kingdom. It tells the true story of how Brierley, 25 years after being separated from his family in India, sets out to find them. The film stars Dev Patel, Sunny Pawar, Rooney Mara, David Wenham, and Nicole Kidman, as well as Abhishek Bharate, Divian Ladwa, Priyanka Bose, Deepti Naval, Tannishtha Chatterjee, and Nawazuddin Siddiqui.

Lion is a 2016 Australian biographical drama film directed by Garth Davis (in his feature directorial debut) from a screenplay by Luke Davies based on the 2013 non-fiction book A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley.

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