Saroo had no intention of sugarcoating their failures. "Looking back, we had let our successful spring split get to our minds," he said. "We became lax. We started to believe that we were pretty good.

Based on the memoir A Long Way Home, Lion tells the true story of Saroo Brierly, who, at 5-years-old, got lost far from his hometown and was adopted by an Australian couple. Twenty years later ...

Preview: Lost 00:36. The incredible lost-and-found story of Saroo Brierley has inspired the new Hollywood film “Lion” -- a movie critics are saying has Oscar potential.

Saroo Brierley woke up feeling lost every day, even long after most people considered him found. Like many of us did when we were little kids, a five-year-old Brierley got separated from his ...

The movie then jumps forward 20 years to 2008, and Saroo (now played by Dev Patel), all grown up, embarks on a course of study in hospitality management.He meets and falls in love with an American ...

Saroo Brierley on his life journey that inspired "Lion" 06:00 “Lion” is up for six Academy Awards, including nominations for best picture, adapted screenplay and supporting actor for stars Dev ...

The opening section of Garth Davis’ debut feature Lion—which is based on a true story—is a lyrical, Dickensian wonder: In the town of Khandra in West Bengal, circa 1987, a small boy, Saroo ...

As a young boy growing up in a poor village in India during the 1980s, Saroo Brierley got lost nearly 1,000 miles from home with no way to retrace his steps.

KHANDWA, India (AP) — Editor's note: Four years before the movie "Lion" was released, two Associated Press reporters told the story of Saroo Brierley's complicated reunion with his mother ...

Dev Patel stars as Saroo Brierly, an orphan who searches for his family in India, in "Lion." During a conversation with new acquaintances, he explains that he’s from Kolkata.

Saroo Brierley, the inspiration for the Oscar-nominated movie "Lion," sits down with Sunday TODAY's Willie Geist to discuss his life story, saying he went through "hell on Earth" as a child before ...