Saroo then travelled to Khandwa in India and asked local residents if they knew of any family that had lost their son 25 years ago, and also showed photographs of himself as a child in Hobart. Local residents soon led him to his mother. He was also reunited with his sister Shekila and his surviving brother Kallu, who were now a schoolteacher and factory manager, respectively (with Saroo and Guddu gone, their mother was able to afford to send them to school).