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LIFE OF PI

“The lower you are, the higher your mind wants to soar.”
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Title: Life of Pi (2012)
Cast: Suraj Sharma (Pi Patel), Irrfan Khan (Adult Pi Patel), Ayush Trandon (Pi Patel 11- 12 years), Gautam Belur (Pi Patel 5 years), Adil Hussain (Santosh Patel, Appa), Tabu (Gita Patel, Amma), Vibish Sivakumar (Ravi Patel)
Director: Ang Lee
Awards: Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score (including fourteen nominations)

Life of Pi is a philosophical film about a boy stuck on a lifeboat in the middle of the pacific ocean. The story is written in past tense and is originally a book published in 2002 by Yann Matel. The climax to the story is when the ship sinks and Pi is forced to be in a constant fight against hunger and thirst. Throughout the movie Pi
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He was raised in a hindu family and later on converted to Christianity by the age of 14 and Islam by the age of 15. Pi had faith in all three religions just as much. In the movie Pi says “All religions are true, I just want to love God”.

At the age of 11 Piscine decided to shorten his name to Pi. you can find a context between his name and the number of days he floated around on the sea. If you divide 22 by 7 you will get the mathematical number pi, 3,14. He showed his whole class how he had been able to teach himself a big part of the decimals.

When Pi was in his mid-teens he was playing drums for a dancing class, that’s where he met the dancer Anandi and they got into a relationship. Not long after Pi got told that his father was selling the zoo he had to move to Canada with his family. They were going to start a new life and sell the animals when the came there. It was really hard for Pi to say goodbye to his love, Anandi, and his old life back in India. He was going to Canada, a place that did not have any meaning to him from

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