Life of Pi

Also Known As: Una aventura extraordinaria

Company: Fox 2000 Pictures / Dune Entertainment / Ingenious Media

Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1

Budget: $120,000,000

Full Cast: Suraj Sharma / Irrfan Khan / Ayush Tandon / Gautam Belur / Adil Hussain / Tabu / Ayaan Khan / Mohd. Abbas Khaleeli / Vibish Sivakumar / Rafe Spall / Gérard Depardieu / James Saito / Jun Naito / Andrea Di Stefano / Shravanthi Sainath / Elie Alouf / Padmini Ramachandran / T.M. Karthik / Amarendran Ramanan / Hari Mina Bala / Bo-Chieh Wang / I-Chen Ko / Jian-wei Huang / Ravi Natesan / Adyant Balaji / Chirag Agarwal / Ahan André Kamath / Om Kamath / Srilekh Katta / Swati Van Rijswijk / M. Keerthana / Indumohan Poornima / Josephine Nithya B. / Samyuktha S. / A. Deiva Sundari / G. Vasantakumary / A. Vithya / Mythili Prakash / Raj Patel / Hadiqa Hamid / Iswar Srikumar / Ganesh Keshav

Cast and Character: Suraj Sharma as Pi Patel / Irrfan Khan as Adult Pi Patel / Ayush Tandon as Pi Patel / Gautam Belur as Pi Patel / Adil Hussain as Santosh Patel / Tabu as Gita Patel / Ayaan Khan as Ravi Patel / Mohd. Abbas Khaleeli as Ravi Patel / Vibish Sivakumar as Ravi Patel / Rafe Spall as Writer / Gérard Depardieu as Cook / James Saito as Older Insurance Investigator / Jun Naito as Younger Insurance Investigator / Andrea Di Stefano as Priest / Shravanthi Sainath as Anandi

Color: Color

Countries: USA / Taiwan / UK

Creators: n/A

Description: A young man who survives a disaster at sea is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While cast away, he forms an unexpected connection with another survivor: a fearsome Bengal tiger.

Directors: Ang Lee

Genres: Adventure / Drama / Fantasy

Languages: English / Tamil / French / Japanese / Hindi

Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada

MPAA: Rated PG for emotional thematic content throughout, and some scary action sequences and peril

Opening Weekend: $22,451,514

Plot: In Canada, a writer visits the Indian storyteller Pi Patel and asks him to tell his life story. Pi tells the story of his childhood in Pondicherry, India, and the origin of his nickname. One day, his father, a zoo owner, explains that the municipality is no longer supporting the zoo and he has hence decided to move to Canada, where the animals the family owns would also be sold. They board on a Japanese cargo ship with the animals and out of the blue, there is a storm, followed by a shipwrecking. Pi survives in a lifeboat with a zebra, an orangutan, a hyena and a male Bengal tiger nicknamed Richard Parker. They are adrift in the Pacific Ocean, with aggressive hyena and Rickard Parker getting hungry. Pi needs to find a way to survive.

Poster: posters/0454876.jpg

Rating: 8.1

Release Date: 21 November 2012 (USA)

Runtime: 127 min

Seasons: n/A

Sound Mix: Dolby Digital / Datasat

Tagline: n/A

Title: Life of Pi

Trailer:

Url: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454876/

Votes: 232,085

Writers: Yann Martel / David Magee

Year: 2012

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Life of Pi got rated 8.1.

About the movie: In Canada, a writer visits the Indian storyteller Pi Patel and asks him to tell his life story. Pi tells the story of his childhood in Pondicherry, India, and the origin of his nickname. One day, his father, a zoo owner, explains that the municipality is no longer supporting the zoo and he has hence decided to move to Canada, where the animals the family owns would also be sold. They board on a Japanese cargo ship with the animals and out of the blue, there is a storm, followed by a shipwrecking. Pi survives in a lifeboat with a zebra, an orangutan, a hyena and a male Bengal tiger nicknamed Richard Parker. They are adrift in the Pacific Ocean, with aggressive hyena and Rickard Parker getting hungry. Pi needs to find a way to survive.

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