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Life Of Pi (2012)
DVD (1 discs
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Blu-ray (2 discs
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Digital ✓
Genre: Drama
Aspect Ratio: Wide
Sound: DD 5.1
Academy Awards:
4 Wins , 11 Nominations
Synopsis
Faith has a funny way of getting tested at exactly the moment you need it most. Only a handful of filmmakers would be brave, or foolhardy, enough to tackle a novel as challenging as Yann Martel's "Life of Pi," but adaptation specialist Ang Lee ("Brokeback Mountain") was well prepared for the job. He frames the story as an interview between a writer (Rafe Spall) and Pi Patel (Irrfan Khan of "The Namesake"), a Montreal immigrant with an extraordinary past. As Pi explains, his parents ran a zoo in the former French colony of Pondicherry, India, where he was fascinated by a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker - a name that came from a clerical mix-up - even though his father (Adil Hussain) warned him to keep his distance. Along the way, young Pi became enthralled with Hinduism, Christianity and Islam, all at once. That spiritual curiosity comes in handy when the family sets out for Canada on a freighter and a brutal storm, as convincingly terrifying as anything in "Titanic," leaves teenage Pi (now played by Suraj Sharma) stranded in a lifeboat with a zebra, an orangutan, a hyena and the tiger. Before long, it's just Pi and Richard Parker battling the elements for 227 days. Since he'd rather not become cat food, Pi spends most of his time on a makeshift raft tied to the boat. It's no spoiler to say he survives, but the meaning of his journey is far more mysterious, since fate tests his faith at every turn. Whether you see this visually spectacular film as a religious allegory or not, Richard Parker, a true marvel of CGI, remains its greatest mystery of all.
Cast
Tabu
Irrfan Khan
Adil Hussain
Suraj Sharma
Gérard Depardieu
Ayush Tandon
Gautam Belur
Ayaan Khan
Mohd. Abbas Khaleeli
Vibish Sivakumar
Rafe Spall
James Saito
Jun Naito
Andrea Di Stefano
Shravanthi Sainath
Director
Ang Lee
Awards & Nominations
- Oscar Nominee: Best Achievement in Production Design
- Oscar Nominee: Best Achievement in Sound Editing
- Oscar Nominee: Best Achievement in Sound Mixing
- Oscar Nominee: Best Film Editing
- Oscar Nominee: Best Music, Original Song
- Oscar Nominee: Best Picture
- Oscar Nominee: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
- Oscar Winner: Best Achievement in Visual Effects
- Oscar Winner: Best Cinematography
- Oscar Winner: Best Director
- Oscar Winner: Best Music, Original Score
Keywords
Academy Award Winners
Adventure
Animals & Nature
Book-To-Film
Drama
Epics
Technical Specifications
Audio Languages
English, French, Spanish
Subtitle Languages
English, Spanish
Special Features
- Featurettes/Behind-The-Scenes/Documentaries
- Photo gallery
- A Remarkable Vision
- A FIlmmaker's Epic Journey
- Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright
- Art Gallery
- Storyboards