Scared, lost and illiterate, he couldn’t communicate enough to ask for help, and somehow survived the streets of that city for months, dodging dangers like abuse and drugs, fighting poverty and starvation. Left alone, he boarded a train that took him to Kolkata. Their father had left their mother and started a family with his second wife. His by-now-famous story is that in 1986, Saroo was Sheru Munshi Khan, a five-year-old from a poor family in Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh, out for the night at a nearby railway station with his older brother. But 'Lion' is a real-life story, and the man whom Dev portrays, the Australian Saroo Brierley, has been a global celebrity long before Hollywood happened to him. Those hopes are even higher now that Dev's won the Best Supporting Actor award at the BAFTAs for this role. The movie getting Indian hopes up this time, a bit like ' Slumdog Millionaire', is ' Lion', starring the same actor, Dev Patel. Even though an official Indian nomination hasn’t gotten close to an Oscars win in many years, there’s often the odd Indian story in the lineup of Oscar hopefuls.
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