Life of Pi : Awesome

hello and hi everyone! please visit my blog often as i will write more often now..hihi..so nearly a week ago, my Dad brought us a family to watch a movie entitled `Life of Pi`..and to be honest , i felt like watching again now.It`s a wonderful movie and definitely worth watching..It unfolds a story that carries you into this ludicrous yet believable movie..like an adventure!

It says in the poster that the movie is in 3D, but we watched the one without 3D..because of the time factor..My Dad`s father had  watched it before and told my Dad that the movie is superb, but it adds more magic if you watch it in 3D. We  did felt down for not watching it in 3D but we were ABSOLUTELY WRONG about it!

The movie still rocked in 2D!

The synopsis

The novel begins with the author describing his travels to India, where he meets a man named Francis Adirubasamy in a coffeehouse in Pondicherry. The man said “I have a story that will make you believe in God.” After which he tells the author to meet his nephew Piscine Patel in Toronto, who  begins to tell his own story.

As a teenager in Pondicherry, India, hee is constantly exploring new opportunities and learning many odd and exciting things. His father is the owner of the Pondicherry Zoo, where Pi learns much of the workings and raising of animals.

Deriving his full name (Piscine) from a world famous swimming pool in France, his parents are good friends with Francis Adirubasamy (from the author’s note), a world class swimmer who often goes on about the Piscine Molitor in Paris. He goes by Pi instead because his schoolmates make a big deal out of calling him “pissing” instead as it sounds similar. They all take to the name and from that point on, his name is no long Piscine but Pi.

Pi grew up a Hindu, but discovered the Catholic faith at age 14 from a priest by the name of Father Martin. He is soon baptized. He then meets Mr. Kumar, a Muslim of some standing and converts to Islam. Therefore, he openly practices all three religions avidly. When the three religious teachers meet up with his parents at the zoo, they demand that he choose a single religion, to which he announces he cannot. 

At age 16, Pi’s father decides that Mrs. Gandhi’s (the leader of India) political actions are unfavoured for and closes up the zoo to move to Toronto. He sells off a majority of the zoo animals to various zoos in America. The animals are loaded onto the same boat that the family will take to reach Winnipeg, Canada. On the journey to North America, the boat sinks.

As the only survivor of the shipwreck, he’s stuck in a lifeboat with a dying zebra and a hyena. Pi sees another survivor floating in the water and only after throwing them a life preserver and pulling them aboard does he realize that “Richard Parker” is actually the 400 pound tiger from his father’s zoo. He immediately jumps overboard until he realizes that there are sharks nearby.

So, upon reentering the boat, he  decides he might survive if he can stay on top and keep Richard Parker beneath it. Over the next week an Orangutan arrives as well and the four animals interplay carefully, eating each other until there is only Richard Parker left.

Over the course of the next 7 months aboard the lifeboat, Pi hides on a raft he made himself behind the boat and begins the process of taming Richard Parker with a whistle and treats from the sea, as well as marking his portion of the boat. 

He begins to get close to the tiger, developing the kind of bond a zookeeper does with his menagerie. After a while, Pi learns to kill and eat from the sea, sharing with the tiger. The two do not eat nearly enough though and as time passes, they become quite ill.

Still floating along alone and desperate, the two come across an island made of algae. They disembark and Pi begins eating the algae, regaining his strength during the day and sleeping on the boat. Richard Parker regains his strength from eating the meerkats who live on the island, sleeping in the trees during the night. Eventually, Pi realizes that they leave at night because of an acid produced by the island during the night hours. He eventually notices a tooth among the algae, evidence of another man having died on the island. They leave quickly as the island is apparently carnivorous.

Finally, after more time spent floating along in the ocean, Pi sights land in Mexico and disembarks. Richard Parker immediately runs off into the woods without a look back at him.It made Pi heartbroken. 

 Pi is recovered at a hospital when two men from the shipping company who owned the boat that sank with his family on it met him on account of finding out what made the sip sank. He told them the story of his 227 days on the boat, but they do not quite believe his fantastic tale of surviving with a Bengal Tiger and the encounter of the island with living meerkats on it.

Pi survived but never forgot Richard Parker and their suffering days together.

It was an incredible story that really made you believe in God.Now i am halfway through its book..

And in conclusion,i can only say that true,