"I'm starting to remember. Saroo our beautiful boy. We're very proud of you son. A life I've forgotten. Are you ok? I had another family a mother a brother..."
An excerpt from the film "The Lion" based on an autobiographical book written by Saroo Brierly.
Aged only five, he lost contact with his family in India, when he was at a train station waiting for his brother who never returned.
After surviving on the streets of Calcutta for three weeks he was placed in an orphanage, and later adopted by an Australian couple who took him back to their home in Tasmania.
Saroo describes his first day in Australia.
"It's a massive contrast, from where I have come from, not knowing another country exists and when coming to Australia it was just really magical I guess for me. It just had that wow factor of a different sort of place and more so just being with a family that wanted to love me and have, because I believed myself back then that there was no way of getting back home or finding my real family."
For his adoptive mo ther, Sue Brierly, the bond with Saroo was an instant one.
"You certainly can immediately love another person's child and I think we had love at first sight didn't we? Saroo: Yeah right at the moment I walked through the door and saw you and dad, mum was so maternal and it was such an endearing moment. And it was the moment the bond between mother and son and father and son was created."
Although he was happy in his new family, Saroo was curious about his past.
As a child he spent hours staring at a map of India on his bedroom wall.
But it was technology that finally connected him to his family of origin.
He used Google Earth to look at satellite images of India in the hope that he would find a landmark, anything that would lead him to where he was from.
And then after years of searching, he found what he was looking for - his birth family in Khandwa with whom he now has regular contact.
As for what advice he would give the young boy arriving in Australia wearing a Tasmania t-shirt and holding a massive chocolate bar:
"I'd say you know from what you went through, you're going to have a very colourful life ahead of you. I think the theme with you is that there are going to be changes in your life and you have to acknowledge them, don't fight it. Listen to your dream and listen to your heart."
