Category: Adventure/ Drama
Star cast: Irrfan Khan, Gérard Depardieu, Tabu, Suraj Sharma, and Adil Hussain.
Director: Ang Lee
Story of Life of Pi
The film Life of Pi is an adaptation of the Man Booker Award winning Novel of the same name written by Canadian author Yann Martel. The story of Life of Pi is survival story of PI, the boy who is stuck on a lifeboat with a tiger.
Movie review
Large part of the movie runs in flash back where an Older PI (Irrfan Khan) narrates his tale to an author essayed by Rafe Spall. Among other things of Life of Pi movie review the film takes you to the childhood of young Pi and camera captures the scenic beauty of Pondicherry (now Pudducherry) and Munnar. In Pondicherry, the film showcases the PI’s family owned Zoo and his values.
Most part of the film is spent in Canada where Pi’s family moves from India. In Canada the disaster struck leaving PI the lone survivor of the family in the Middle of the Pacific Ocean on lifeboat where there is Bengal Tiger to give him company. This calamity gives Pi a chance to rediscover himself in terms of spirituality and adventure. Almost all the stars of the film Irrfan Khan, Gérard Depardieu, Tabu and Suraj Sharma have lived upto the expectation. Life of Pi is a visual delight with gripping story.
The film proves wrong the general belief that adaptation from the book is not as good as the book. The masterpiece LOP delivered by Ang Lee has everything to entertain the viewers as movie has been released.
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