When everything seems to fall apart, I blame no one but
myself. Whenever I am in the midst of hurdles, I just cry as if it will fix the
whole mess. When I cannot cope up with the speed of harshness life has been
giving me, I just shut the world down drowning myself into such misery. Now,
that I am currently hurdling such complexity of life I just want to stop living
for a moment. Until I watched this very moving film entitled Life of Pi.
According to Wikipedia.com, Life of Pi is a 2012 3D adventure drama film based on Yann Martel's 2001 novel of the same name. Directed by Ang Lee, the film is based on an adapted screenplay by David Magee. The storyline revolves
around a 16-year old boy named Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel, who
survives a shipwreck in which his family dies, and is stranded in the Pacific
Ocean on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. 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.
The film aims to promote belief in an omnipotent and ever
powerful God. With the aid of three religions in the film which are the Roman
Catholicism, Islam and Hinduism, it had been shown that the mentioned religion
do believe in one the same God. Specifically, the film showed how the power of
God works over us human beings and other creatures. Hence, this film is but one
of the best Bollywood films I have ever encountered.
The story started with an American interviewing this
Indian about the story of his life. This Indian Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel portrayed
by Gautam Belur at age 6, Ayush Tandon at age 13, Suraj Sharma at age 16 and Irrfan
Khan as adult Pi was a unique man who
happened to practice three religions at the same time since his childhood. The
American writer acted by Rafe Spall was finding a subject to be featured in his
book. He had met Mamaji who happened to be the godfather of Pi who told the
writer that Pi is the best person to be introduced in his next book. And so,
the American came knocking at Pi’s door one day. And the story of the life of
Pi started.
From his success in eradicating bullies out of his life
and fighting for his belief in God against his atheist family during his
childhood to his unimaginable experience with the animals for survival after a
shipwreck which killed all of the human passengers in the vessel they rode into
including his family made the storyline so interesting, exciting and moving.
The storyline itself especially the part where Pi has experienced struggle yet
he had not let his faith be ruled over by fear and hopelessness played a big
role in making the film a noble one.
