Feb. 5: At age five he accidentally boarded a train at Khandwa, in Madhya Pradesh, and ended up wandering the streets of Calcutta, all alone, lost and "scared".Subsequently, he was put in an orphanage ...

The pint-sized superstar played the young version of Dev Patel's character, Saroo, who falls asleep on an empty train and winds up, days later, on the other side of the country, lost, alone and ...

When Saroo wakes up a little later, the station is empty and his brother is nowhere to be seen. Groggy with sleep, he sees a train next to the platform and climbs aboard, looking for Guddu.

Saroo Brierley may be the subject of the Best Picture nominee Lion at this month’s Academy Awards, but for now his adoptive mother Sue is just “waiting for him to move out of my spare room ...

At the Howrah Station, nobody noticed the lost, little boy running from platform to platform, hopping on one train or the other, any train that may take him back to ‘Ginestlay’.