Wakes again, this time on a moving train. When Saru wakes, he cannot find his brother. On arrival, and to tired to continue, Guddu left Saru on a bench at the railway station to sleep, telling him he would return to collect him once he has completed his nocturnal search for supplies. When Saru was aged 5 he pleaded with Guddu to take him on an excursion to Burhanpur, 70kms south of Khandwa. Sometimes they would scavenge coal off train carriages to exchange for food so that the family could eat.
The brothers would often head to the railway station and tracks to beg for money or scraps of food. His father had left the family to re-marry, leaving Fatima the difficult task of raising her young family on her meagre takings of carrying rocks at a nearby building site. In the early 1980s Saru Munshi Khan (Saru means lion in his original Hindu language) was part of a closely knit, single parent family, living with his mother, Fatima Munshi, elder brothers Guddu and Kallu and his younger sister Sheklia, in a single room in Ganesh Talai, a suburb of Khandwa, in the central province of Madhya Pradesh in India. Lion does open conversations about adoption and before responding to whether the tempo of adoptions should be increased, for those who are unfamiliar with Saroo’s story here are some highlights. Consequently they would like to see adoption processes quicken and rates increase. Their message: Australian governments have an inherent anti-adoption culture and a burdensome bureaucracy that unnecessarily slows processes to the detriment of children in need. The release of Lion has reignited some discussion about adoption in Australia with Sue Brierley, Saroo’s adoptive mother, actor Nicole Kidman, who plays Sue in the film, and the Sydney based pro-adoption organisation, AdoptChange, with its founder Debra Lee Furness, all trying to leverage off the popularity of the film to promote adoption more generally. The film has already won several international film awards and secured a number of Oscar nominations. His memoir A Long Way Home became an international best seller when first published in 2012 and the recent release of Lion, the feature film adapted from his book, continues to spread his story to a wider audience. The life story of Saroo Brierley is characterised by some extraordinary events since he was lost in India and subsequently adopted by an Australian couple in Tasmania.
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