DVD Review: Life of Pi

Updated On: 02 June, 2013 06:33 AM IST | | Kareena N Gianani

Ineffable and dangerous things can happen when you put a teenager in the middle of a tempest at sea.

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Then, if you entertain the notion of him as a castaway, with no one except adult Bengal tiger for company, what you get is a hair-raising, nearly impossible tale. And, of course, the plot of author Yann Martel’s most acclaimed work, Life Of Pi and director Ang Lee’s Oscar-winning adaptation on celluloid.

Life Of Pi
Director: Ang Lee
Starring: Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Tabu, Rafe Spall
Music: Mychael Danna
Based on a novel by: Yann Martel
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Life of Pi is not one story but several stories in one. It starts with an author visiting a Montreal-based man for a story which would make him believe in god. The man, called Pi, begins his own, whimsical story as a boy in Puducherry who is embarrassed at being named after a swimming pool in Paris (Piscine Molitor Patel) and the lengths he goes to so he can shrug it off from the cruel ears of his classmates. Gradually, the film traces the story of his many religious faiths and an innocence only children can manage to retain.u00a0

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