Life of Pi emerged as a critical and commercial success, earning over US$609 million worldwide and receiving critical acclaim. 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. Filming was split between India, Taiwan and Montreal in 2011, with Rhythm & Hues Studios (R&H) handling the visual effects work. Night Shyamalan, Alfonso Cuarón and Jean-Pierre Jeunet involved at various stages before the hiring of Lee. The film began development shortly after the release of the book and would see directors M. The storyline revolves around an Indian teenager named 'Pi' Patel, telling a novelist about his life story, and how at 16 he survives a shipwreck and is adrift in the Pacific Ocean on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger. Directed by Ang Lee, and written by David Magee, the film stars Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Rafe Spall, Tabu, Adil Hussain, and Gérard Depardieu. I said, 'Ok, these guys are trusting me with this, and I should just give it everything I have.Life of Pi is a 2012 adventure drama film based on Yann Martel's 2001 novel of the same name. I really felt secure in that I didn't feel pressure.

'It was more than just an actor-director relationship,' Sharma says. More than the rehearsing or arduous physical training, Sharma says his success in this improbable film, as a first-timer playing opposite an imaginary tiger on a small boat, is a tribute to Lee. 'When I'm under pressure, I would not have done as well as I could.'

'I knew it was a big thing, but I tried not thinking about it,' says Sharma, 19. Soon after, the philosophy major, who only came to the initial audition as 'moral support' for his actor brother, found himself at the center of an immense project. It prominently children and animals, and it's largely set on water.īut the Oscar winner ('Brokeback Mountain'), who worked on the film for four years, wasn't the only one dealing with enormous obstacles on set.įirst-time actor Suraj Sharma, a Delhi university student, survived multiple rounds of intense auditions and bested many competitors to win the part. The movie, which opens tomorrow, violates multiple unwritten rules of filmmaking, Lee has repeatedly said. Ang Lee's 'Life of Pi' is the most ambitious movie of the year, a complicated 3-D adaptation of Yann Martel's novel about a shipwrecked Indian teen stranded in the Pacific on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger.

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