![]() His father left when he and his three siblings were young, throwing the family into bitter poverty and leaving his mother to work for long stretches of time at a construction site to provide for the family. It sent the already well-known story into the stratosphere.īrierley was born Sheru Munshi Khan in Ganesh Talai, a suburb in the town of Khandwa in India's Madhya Pradesh province. Lion, the film adaptation of Brierley's memoir, was released in 2016 to critical acclaim and garnered six Oscar nominations. It shot Sunny Pawar (a young boy from a Mumbai slum, who played young Saroo) to fame. ![]() You probably know Brierley's story – Dev Patel almost won an Oscar for it. ![]() This sequel seems eerily similar to a journey he took the world on just a few years earlier a delayed echo of his first grand trip from India to Australia to trace his heritage. It’s an individual thing that you do by yourself, there’s a lot of soul searching.” I know where he is, but I just haven’t had the strength to finalise that point. What he is certain of, however, is how his story will end. “It will finish off with finding my father. The guest of honour this year is India, which is particularly poignant for Brierley. The impending additions to his oeuvre have not yet been officially announced, so he is understandably coy with the finer details. Saroo Brierly, far right, with his birth and adoptive mothers in his hometown in India. Courtesy Saroo Brierleyīrierley, now 37, is in the capital this week for the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair, alongside other renowned authors flocking in from across the globe, such as Ben Okri and Ziauddin Yousafzai, the father of Nobel Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai. Oh, and there’s one more thing: his story is also being developed into a stage show. The sentence is rattled off, just like that, as if each of its components aren’t huge, lifelong achievements for most people. "It will be the sequel, and Mum's writing the prequel." "I'm writing another book," he tells The National. The last chapter of Saroo Brierley's life is perhaps the only portion that the general public aren't yet privy to. After all, the first 31 years went out for public consumption when he penned his tell-all memoir A Long Way Home in 2013, and when British actor Dev Patel took his story not only to the big screen, but to the Academy Awards, too.īut what of everything that came after the happy ending? Well, that thirst to know what has become of Brierley – the Indian child who got lost so far from home that he wound up rehoused in Tasmania, only to go in search of his real mother two decades later with only a faint memory and Google Earth as guidance – can now be satiated.
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