Despite seeing Lion around 20 times, the real-life Saroo Brierley still gets emotional when he sees the Oscar-nominated film based on his epic journey to find his family. The response to the film of Brierley’s story – how he was separated from his family in India at age 5, was adopted by an Australian couple, and embarked on an epic search to find his birth family 25 years later – has been amazing, he says.