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Life of Pi is a 2012 American 3D live-action/computer-animated adventure drama film based on Yann Martel's 2001 novel of the same name. Directed by Ang Lee, the film is based on an adapted screenplay by David Magee, and stars Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Rafe Spall, Gérard Depardieu, Tabu, and Adil Hussain.
The storyline revolves around a 16-year old Indian boy named Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel, who survives 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 had its worldwide premiere as the opening film of the 50th New York Film Festival at both the Walter Reade Theater and Alice Tully Hall in New York City on September 28, 2012.
Upon release, Life of Pi became a critical and commercial success, earning over $600 million worldwide. At the 85th Academy Awards it had eleven nominations, including Best Picture, and won four (the most for the evening) including Best Director for Ang Lee. It was also nominated for three Golden Globe Awards which included the Best Picture – Drama and the Best Director and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score.
A novelist named Yann Martel (Rafe Spall) meets an Indian man, Pi Patel (Irrfan Khan) with some knowledge from Pi's late father's friend, known to Pi as "Mamaji" (Elie Alouf), for a good book. Pi recalls his childhood events and tells the novelist his life story.
In a flashback, Pi's father named him Piscine Molitor after a swimming pool in France. As a child he changed his name to "Pi" (the Greek letter, π) because he was tired of being called "Pissing Patel" (due to the sound of his name). In a flashback it was seen that his family owned a zoo, and Pi took great interest in the animals, especially a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. When Pi tries to feed the tiger in great curiosity, his father runs in and angrily tells him that the tiger is dangerous and not like a human. He forces Pi to witness the tiger killing a goat to prove his point. Pi is raised Hindu and vegetarian, but at 12 years old, he is introduced to Christianity and then Islam, and starts to follow all three religions as he "just wants to love God." His mother (Tabu) supports his desire to grow, but his father (Adil Hussain), a rationalist, tries to convert him to his own way of thinking ("think rationally"). Pi meets a girl (Shravanthi Sainath) in a dance class where he plays the mridangam and they evidently begin to fall in love.
When Pi is 16 (Suraj Sharma), his father decides to move the family to Winnipeg, Manitoba, where he intends to settle and sell the zoo animals. Saddened by this, he bids farewell to his brief lover and promises to return. They book passage on a Japanese freighter named Tsimtsum. One night there is a storm; the ship begins to flounder while Pi is on deck. He tries to find his family, but a crew member throws him into a lifeboat. Just as the ship falls into the sea, a freed zebra leaps from the ship to land on the boat with him. Pi then watches helplessly as the ship sinks, killing his family and the crew. After the storm, Pi finds himself in the lifeboat with the injured zebra, and is joined by an orangutan. A spotted hyena emerges from the tarp covering half of the boat where it snaps at Pi, forcing him to retreat to the top of the tarp and later kills the zebra and the orangutan. Suddenly the tiger, Richard Parker, emerges from under the tarp, killing the hyena. Richard Parker then takes numerous swipes at Pi, practically running him off the boat; Richard Parker then devours the bodies of the other animals at night.
Pi gets out biscuits, water rations, and a hand axe and builds a small raft to stay at a safe distance from Richard Parker. Pi begins fishing and is able to feed Richard Parker. He also collects rain water for both to drink. When the tiger jumps off to hunt fish, at first Pi wants to let it drown, then he relents and helps it climb back into the boat. At one point, in a nighttime encounter with a breaching humpback whale, Pi loses much of his supplies, forcing him to eat fish for the first time in his life. A while later, Pi trains Richard Parker to accept him in the boat. He also realizes that caring for the tiger is keeping him alive.
After many days at sea, another thunderstorm approaches to Pi, as he thinks it is a 'sign' from God and prays to him. He tells Richard Parker to come out, as he stares at the frightening bolts of lightning, and Richard Parker gets scared of the storm. After a miraculous and scary lightning strike, Pi hides under the tarpaulin as he makes it extend to cover the entire boat.
Weeks later and half dead, they reach a mysterious floating island of edible plants, supporting a mangrove jungle, fresh water pools, and a large population of meerkats. Both Pi and Richard Parker eat and drink freely and regain strength. But at night, the island transforms into a hostile environment: Richard Parker retreats to the lifeboat and the resident meerkats sleep in the trees while the fresh water pools turn acidic and digest the dead fish in the pools. Pi discovers that the island itself is carnivorous after finding a human tooth embedded in a flower. The next day, Pi and Richard Parker leave the island.
The lifeboat eventually reaches the coast of Mexico. Pi is crushed that Richard Parker does not acknowledge him before disappearing into the jungle. Pi is rescued and carried to a hospital, weeping. Insurance agents for the Japanese freighter come to interview him, but they do not believe his story and ask what "really" happened. He tells a less fantastic account of sharing the lifeboat with his mother, a Buddhist sailor (Po-Chieh Wang) with a broken leg, and the cook (Gérard Depardieu). The cook kills the sailor in order to eat him and use him as bait. In a later struggle, Pi's mother pushes her son to safety on a smaller raft, and the cook stabs her and throws her overboard. Later, Pi returns, takes the knife and kills the cook.
In the present day, Yann notes the parallels between the two stories: the orangutan was Pi's mother, the zebra was the sailor, the hyena was the cook, and Richard Parker, the tiger, was Pi himself. Pi asks him which story the writer prefers, and the writer chooses the one with the tiger because it "is the better story", to which Pi responds, "Thank you. And so it goes with God". Glancing at a copy of the insurance report, Yann sees the agents wrote that Pi somehow survived 227 days at sea with an adult Bengal tiger: the insurance agents had also chosen the more fantastic story. Yann gets up and stays for dinner with Pi and his family. A final scene is shown of Richard Parker as the tiger walks away into the jungle, without looking back to Pi, and disappearing behind the bush.
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