Filming the story.

    This novel is very complicated, so it seems like it's impossible to make a screen version. But  a brilliant director Ang Lee managed to do it! The film was shot in 2012. The actor who played a role of Pi was Suraj Sharma. Initially he even wasn't supposed to be an actor, he just came on the casting together with his brother. But the team of Ang Lee chose him from more than 3,000 applicants for the lead role! 

                                                               (Suraj Sharma)

Suraj Sharma, in fact, has never been in a boat with a live tiger. In most scenes the tiger was made with the help of computer graphics technology, and only some of the scenes, such as those where the tiger was swimming in the water, were taken for real.

Along with new unnowen actors, the famous talented actor Gérard Depardieu took part in the film. He had a role of the cook on the ship, accourding to the book he was the hyena in eye's of Pi. It was genius to take Gérard to this role, because in the book the sea cook was a French man. Here he had a negative role, but I think he did his best.

                                                                

Tabu or Tabassum Hashmi is an Indian actress. Tabu twice, as best actress, won the prize National Film Award. 4 times she was awarded the Filmfare's Critics Award for the Best Female Performer. Here she plays Gita Patel - the mother of Pi (the orangutan).