Life of Pi
Believe The Unbelievable
2012 | 127m | English
Popularity: 6 (history)
| Director: | Ang Lee |
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| Writer: | Yann Martel, David Magee |
| Staring: |
| The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper's son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck sets them adrift in the Pacific Ocean. | |
| Release Date: | Nov 20, 2012 |
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| Director: | Ang Lee |
| Writer: | Yann Martel, David Magee |
| Genres: | Adventure, Drama |
| Keywords | sea, loss of loved one, 1970s, faith, zebra, survival, young boy, zookeeper, orangutan, teenage boy, hyena, meerkat, magic realism, cargo ship, lifeboat, injured animal, storm at sea, told in flashback, wreckage, loss of family, teenage protagonist, family loss, flying fish, exhilarated, vibrant |
| Production Companies | Ingenious Media, Dune Entertainment, Fox 2000 Pictures, India Take One, Big Screen Productions, Haishang Films, Netter Productions |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $609,016,565
Budget: $120,000,000 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 03, 2025 (Update) Entered: Apr 13, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Suraj Sharma | Pi Patel |
| Irrfan Khan | Adult Pi Patel |
| Ayush Tandon | Pi Patel (11-12 Years) |
| Gautam Belur | Pi Patel (5 Years) |
| Adil Hussain | Santosh Patel |
| Tabu | Gita Patel |
| Ayaan Khan | Ravi Patel (7 Years) |
| Mohd Abbas Khaleeli | Ravi Patel (13-14 Years) |
| Vibish Sivakumar | Ravi Patel (18-19 Years) |
| Rafe Spall | Writer |
| Gérard Depardieu | Cook |
| James Saito | Older Insurance Investigator |
| Jun Naito | Younger Insurance Investigator |
| Andrea Di Stefano | Priest |
| Shravanthi Sainath | Anandi |
| Elie Alouf | Mamaji |
| T.M. Karthik | Science Teacher |
| Amarendran Ramanan | Indian History Teacher |
| Hari Mina Bala | Librarian |
| Edison Wang | Buddhist Sailor |
| Ko I-chen | Tsimtsum Captain |
| Jag Huang | Sailor |
| Ravi Natesan | Selvam |
| Adyant Balaji | Bully |
| Chirag Agarwal | Bully |
| Ahan André Kamath | Bully |
| Om Kamath | Bully |
| Srilekh Katta | Bully |
| Swati Van Rijswijk | Anandi's Friend #1 |
| M. Keerthana | Anandi's Friend #2 |
| Indumohan Poornima | Dancer |
| Josephine Nithya B. | Dancer |
| Samyuktha S. | Dancer |
| A. Deiva Sundari | Dancer |
| G. Vasantakumary | Dancer |
| A. Vithya | Dancer |
| Mythili Prakash | Pi's Wife |
| Raj Patel | Pi's Son |
| Hadiqa Hamid | Pi's Daughter |
| Iswar Srikumar | Muslim Worshipper |
| Padmini Ramachandran | Dance Master |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Yann Martel | Novel |
| David Gropman | Production Design |
| Al Hobbs | Art Direction |
| Marcelo Pont Vergés | Production Design |
| Arjun Bhasin | Costume Design |
| Terry Lewis | Set Decoration |
| Guillaume Rocheron | Visual Effects Supervisor |
| Ian Blum | Animation Supervisor |
| Philip Stockton | Supervising Sound Editor |
| Eugene Gearty | Supervising Sound Editor |
| Drew Kunin | Sound Designer |
| Erik De Boer | Animation Supervisor |
| Donald Elliott | Special Effects Coordinator |
| Farhad Ahmed Dehlvi | Assistant Camera |
| John Roberts | Painter |
| David Magee | Screenplay |
| Adil Hussain | Production Office Assistant |
| Kevin Kaska | Orchestrator |
| Claudio Miranda | Camera Operator, Director of Photography |
| Anthony Di Ninno | Digital Effects Supervisor |
| Aravind Jayaraman | Visual Effects |
| Rohit Kolhe | Animation |
| Alexander Fernandes | Animation |
| Sachin Bangera | Animation |
| Dixie Pizani | Animation |
| Julie D'Antoni | Visual Effects |
| Sagar Patil | Compositors |
| Ang Lee | Director |
| Tim Squyres | Editor |
| Ron Bartlett | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Doug Hemphill | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Bill Westenhofer | Visual Effects Supervisor |
| Anup Kulkarni | Visual Effects Design Consultant |
| Frank Chen | Thanks |
| Christian Wood | Compositing Lead |
| Charles Croughwell | Stunt Coordinator |
| Mychael Danna | Original Music Composer |
| Barrie Gower | Prosthetics Sculptor |
| Avy Kaufman | Casting |
| Fergus Clegg | Assistant Set Decoration |
| Cliff Lanning | First Assistant Director |
| Michael Shapcotte | Visual Effects |
| Anna Pinnock | Set Decoration |
| Bombay Jayashri | Lyricist |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Gil Netter | Producer |
| Dean Georgaris | Executive Producer |
| David Womark | Producer |
| Ang Lee | Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Academy Awards | Best Actor | Suraj Sharma | Nominated |
| Academy Awards | Best Picture | N/A | Nominated |
| Academy Awards | Best Director | Kuang Lee | Nominated |
| Golden Globes | Best Picture | N/A | Nominated |
| Golden Globes | Best Actor | Irrfan Khan | Nominated |
| Golden Globes | Best Director | Ang Lee | Nominated |
| BAFTA Awards | Best Picture | N/A | Nominated |
| BAFTA Awards | Best Director | Ang Lee | Nominated |
| SAG Awards | Best Picture | N/A | Nominated |
| SAG Awards | Best Actor | Suraj Sharma | Nominated |
| SAG Awards | Best Director | Ang Lee | Nominated |
Popularity History
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| 2024 | 4 | 49 | 67 | 33 |
| 2024 | 5 | 57 | 85 | 39 |
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| 2024 | 9 | 36 | 43 | 26 |
| 2024 | 10 | 47 | 91 | 31 |
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| 2024 | 12 | 45 | 60 | 32 |
| 2025 | 1 | 49 | 61 | 32 |
| 2025 | 2 | 38 | 51 | 8 |
| 2025 | 3 | 15 | 40 | 3 |
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| 2024 | 8 | 578 | 824 |
Visually, this movie traps yourself from the beginning to the end. The story is really deep and moving and the performances are plainly good. A must to be seen. ...
Perfectly written, amazingly filmed, and surprisingly ended. Definitely, going in my amnisa list. ...
My rating: 4 out of 10 stars A young man who survives a disaster at sea is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While cast away, he forms an unexpected connection with another survivor: a fearsome Bengal tiger. I did not have huge expectations on this movie since it is not ... exactly my style of movie but nevertheless I have to say that I was disappointed. The movie is certainly quite beautiful to watch, at least part of it. However it is also a movie with a strong theistic agenda. Even though it is, luckily, not really religious/political extremism it is thick and intruding nonetheless. I was expecting Pi to actually learn something during the course of his adventure but he does not. He starts the movie gullible and foolish looking for meaning in life (religion) and the movie ends pretty much in the same way with him claiming that he had faith and therefore he survived. Yet none of the decisions he made was based on faith but simply pragmatical decisions of survival. If anything the movie proved that faith or religion had nothing to do with it. As I said the movie was, partly, quite beautiful to watch and this is entirely what rendered it the stars that I gave it. For the rest it was a very boring movie. The only mildly entertaining part was the scenes on the boat with Gérard Depardieu playing the very unpleasant cook. As beautiful to watch as they were many of the scenes were quite unrealistic though and had an artificial look to them even when, I believe, it was not intended. We bought the movie because my youngest daughter loves movies about animals but not even she was overly entertained by this movie.