<P> Twenty years later, Saroo, now a young man, moves to Melbourne to study hotel management . He starts a relationship with Lucy, an American student . During a meal with some Indian friends at their home, he comes across jalebi, a delicacy he remembers from his childhood . He confides that he is adopted, and his friends suggest he use Google Earth to search for his hometown in India . Saroo begins his search, but over time disconnects from Lucy, overwhelmed by the thought of emotions his family must have gone through when he was missing . </P> <P> Saroo visits Sue, whose health is deteriorating, and learns that she is not infertile, but had chosen to help others in need through adoption, believing that there were already too many people on Earth . Saroo spends a long time searching fruitlessly for his hometown . One evening, while scanning Google Earth, he notices the rock formations where his mother worked, and then finds the area where he lived: the Ganesh Talai neighborhood of the Khandwa district . He finally tells his adoptive mother about his search, and she fully supports his efforts . </P> <P> Saroo returns to his hometown, where he has an emotional reunion with his biological mother and sister, but learns that Guddu is dead . Guddu was killed by a train the same night that they went to the station as children . Saroo's mother never gave up hope and believed that one day her missing son would return, and never moved away from the village . The film ends with captions about the real Saroo's return to India in February 2012 . Photos of the real Australian family are shown, as well as a video of Saroo and Sue meeting his biological mother in India, who deeply appreciates Sue's care for her son . Saroo later learned that he had been mispronouncing his own name, which was actually Sheru, a diminutive for Sher (Hindi: शेर, Persian: شیر ‎ ‎), a Hindi word of Persian origin meaning "lion". </P> <Ul> <Li> Dev Patel as older Saroo Brierley </Li> <Li> Sunny Pawar as younger Saroo Brierley </Li> <Li> Rooney Mara as Lucy, Saroo's girlfriend </Li> <Li> Nicole Kidman as Sue Brierley, Saroo's adoptive mother </Li> <Li> David Wenham as John Brierley, Saroo's adoptive father </Li> <Li> Abhishek Bharate as Guddu Khan, Saroo's biological brother </Li> <Li> Divian Ladwa as Mantosh Brierley, Saroo's adoptive brother </Li> <Li> Keshav Jadhav as Young Mantosh </Li> <Li> Priyanka Bose as Kamla Munshi, Saroo's biological mother </Li> <Li> Deepti Naval as Saroj Sood, founder of the Indian Society for Sponsorship and Adoption (ISSA) </Li> <Li> Tannishtha Chatterjee as Noor </Li> <Li> Nawazuddin Siddiqui as Rama </Li> <Li> Benjamin Rigby as Waiter </Li> <Li> Riddhi Sen as Café Man, responsible for bringing Saroo to the authorities </Li> <Li> Kaushik Sen as Police Officer </Li> <Li> Rita Boy as Amita, Saroo's friend at the orphanage </Li> <Li> Pallavi Sharda as Prama, Saroo's college friend </Li> <Li> Sachin Joab as Bharat, Saroo's college friend </Li> <Li> Arka Das as Sami, Saroo's college friend </Li> <Li> Emilie Cocquerel as Annika, Saroo's college friend </Li> </Ul>

Where does the movie lion get its name