Over the next few days, Pi learns to adjust life on the lifeboat by finding emergency food and water rations and building a small tethered raft from the flotation vests to maintain a safe distance from the tiger. The hyena kills the zebra and later to Pi’s dismay, also mortally wounds the orangutan in a fight before Richard Parker suddenly emerges from the tarp and kills and eats the hyena, much to Pi’s relief. Suddenly, a spotted hyena emerges from the tarp covering half of the lifeboat and snaps at Pi, forcing him to retreat to the other side of the lifeboat. On realizing that the ship is sinking, Pi tries to search his family, but a crew member throws him onto a lifeboat where he watches helplessly as the ship sinks, killing his family and its crew.Īfter the storm has subsided, Pi wakes up finding a zebra and a resourceful orangutan aboard the lifeboat. One night, the ship encounters a heavy storm over the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean as a result of which the boat begins to sink while Pi is marvelling at the storm on the deck.
One the ship, his father gets into an argument with the ship’s cook (Gerard Depardieu) when he speaks rudely with Pi’s mother. The Patel family books a passage with their animals aboard a Japanese freighter named Tsimtsum.
Pi, now aged 16 (Suraj Sharma) is a little upset after he learns that his father decides to close the zoo and sell them in Canada where they will be migrating, as that requires bidding farewell to his newly-met girlfriend Anandi. But his father warns him that Pi needs to take a secular outlook when it comes to religion. Pi is raised to be a vegetarian in a Hindu family but at the age of 12, is drawn into other religions like Christianity and Islam and decides to follow all three religions as he “just wants to love God”. He proves his point by teaching Pi a valuable lesson by forcing him to witness the tiger killing a goat. His father intervenes and angrily scolds him by saying that the Tiger is a wild animal and is not be taken as a friend. One day, Pi tries to free the tiger without letting his father know by feeding the tiger meat and thereby endangering his life. His parents Santosh Patel and Gita Patel (Tabu) own a zoo to which Pi takes an interest, especially with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. Fed up with being taunted continuously, Piscine one day changes his name to ‘Pi Patel’, a sound-alike nickname after the Greek mathematical symbol. Unfortunately, the poor kid is subjected to a lot of teasing by his classmates who call him “Pissing Patel”.
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The movie introduces us to Pi whose father Santosh Patel (Adil Hussain) names him ‘Piscine Molitor’ after a famous swimming pool in France on the recommendation of his Uncle who adored swimming in that pool. Pi Patel (Irrfan Khan), an Indian immigrant from Pondicherry who’s now living in Montreal, Canada is approached by novelist Yann Martel (Rafe Spall) who comes to visit him on the recommendation of Pi’s Uncle who assured him that Pi’s life story would truly make a great book. While there have been several theories about what the ending of the film meant, I wanted to offer my take on it. But there remains one aspect of the film that needs detail discussion: its ending. We already established that Life of Pi is an achievement in visual storytelling.
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