Quotes

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Little Saroo: Guddoo. kya main bhee aa sakata hoon? [in Hindi: Guddu. Can I come too?] Guddu: tum bahut chhote ho, tum yah nahin kar sakate. [You're too small, You can't do this.] Little Saroo: main kuchh bhee utha sakata hoon. [I can lift anything.]

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[speaking Hindi] Help me! Guddu! Guddu! Help me! Guddu! Someone save me! Guddu! Help me! Guddu!

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Saroo. [?] This is your mum and dad. Say hello. [in English] Hello, I'm Swarmina.

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Saroo Brierley: I'm sorry you couldn't have your own kids. Sue Brierley: What are you saying? Saroo Brierley: We... we... weren't blank pages, were we? Like your own would have been. You weren't just adopting us but our past as well. I feel like we're killing you. Sue Brierley: I could have had kids. Saroo Brierley: What? Sue Brierley: We chose not to have kids. We wanted the two of you. That's what we wanted. We wanted the two of you in our lives. That's what we chose. [pause] That's one of the reasons I fell in love with your dad. [pause] Because we both felt as if... the world has enough people in it. Have a child, couldn't guarantee it will make anything better. But to take a child that's suffering like you boys were. Give you a chance in the world. That's something.

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Saroo! [dog barks distant] Saroo! Saroo!

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Lucy: Saroo? You OK? Male Dinner Guest: Saroo? Saroo Brierley: I'm not from Calcutta... I'm lost.

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Saroo! Saroo! Saroo? Saroo!

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Saroo's mother: Sheru? Saroo Brierley: Ammi?

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Guddu is no more. He’s with god.

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[on phone] Hi, Mum. I know you’ll be sound asleep. I just want to say that I’m safe. I’m safe, and the questions have been answered. There are no more dead ends. I’ve found my mother, and… she thanks you both for raising me. She understands that you’re my family. She’s… …happy just knowing I’m alive. I’ve found her, but that doesn’t change who you are. I love you, Mum, so much. And you, Dad. And Mantosh.

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Saroo Brierley made it back to Ganesh Talai on February 12, 2012. He'd been lost for over 25 years. All those years earlier, on the same night he stepped up into that empty carriage, his brother Guddu died-hit by a train not far from the platform. Saroo's mother, Kamla, has never given up hope of Saroo's return, and had never moved away. Kamla said she was 'surprised with thunder' that her boy had come back, and that the happiness in her heart was 'as deep as the ocean'. Saroo learned that all those years ago, as a five-year-old, he has been mispronouncing his own name. He was 'Sheru', meaning... Lion

Extended version

Saroo.