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Plot

The film, directed by Ang Lee, is about a 16-year old boy named

Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel, an Indian immigrant living in Montreal,

Canada, who suffers a shipwreck in which his family dies, and is

stranded in the Pacific Ocean on a lifeboat with a Bengal

tiger named Richard Parker. The film tells us the story of the two'srelationship, and their journey to shore. The film is based on the

novel ‘Life of Pi’, written by Yann Martel. 

Cast

Pi - the character Pi is played by 4 different people, all playing him in different stages of his life.

Suraj Sharma

Irrfan Khan

Ayush Tandon

Gautam Belur

Tabassum Hashmi - Gita, Pi's Mother

Adil Hussain - Santosh, Pi's FatherGérard Depardieu - The Cook

Rafe Spall – The Writer

Production

The film was directed by Ang Lee, and based on a screenplay by David Magee. The film was

produced by Ang Lee, Gil Netter and David Womark. The Fox 2000 Pictures and Rhythm & Hues

studios were both used for the film, with the R&H studios working on the 3D effects. Principal

photography began for the film on the 18th January 2011, Filming took place in India, Taiwan and

Canada. The musical score from the film was composed by Mychael Danna. The film was distributed

by 20th Century Fox.

Reception

The film was released in the US on the 21th November 2012. The film had its worldwide premiere as

the opening film of the 50th New York Film Festival in both the Walter Reade Theatre and Alice Tully

Hall on September 28, 2012. So far, the film has earned $306,753,346 in the box office, with the first

weekend of its release bringing in over $30 million. Life of Pi has received very favourable reviews

from critics, garnering a score of 89% on the Rotten Tomatoes website. Here are a few quotes from

critic’s reviews and interviews of the film: 

“There is always a poetic aesthetic that Lee brings to his best work — the brutal martial arts ballet of 

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon or the homophobic hatred against the backcountry grandeur of 

Brokeback Mountain, which would win him an Oscar for directing in 2006. In Life of Pi, certainly givenits technological achievements, the filmmaker has raised the bar. Not since James Cameron's

breathtaking blue Avatar in 2009 has 3-D had such impact”  

Betsey Sharkey, Los Angeles Times

“Life of Pi breaks the paradigm that 3-D has to be some big, action fantasy spectacle, superhero

movie [....] The movie is visually amazing, inventive, and it works on you in ways you’re not really 

aware of. It takes you on a journey, and unless you’ve read the book -- which I hadn’t -- you have no

idea where that journey is going. It does what good 3-D is supposed to do, which is, it allows you to

 forget you’re watching a 3-D movie.”  

James Cameron, Director