Life of Pi Review

No words can expain how unimaginable, incredible and touching this movie was. For me one of the best movie of the decade. People praise it for its graphics, animation, technology used but what they don't see is the love, the pain, the struggle, the never give up motto that it portrays.

Life of Pie is an adaptation of Yann Martel's award winning novel. From its opening scene of animals and birds strutting and preening themselves in a sunlit zoo to the final credits of fish and nautical objects shimmering beneath the sea, the movie had a sense of the mysterious, the magical.

Director Ang Lee, a very popular and several time awarded Taiwan's legend filmmaker, took the novel to its new heights. Every once in a long while, the right director comes across the right project at just the right moment, and things so often discordant fall into perfect harmony. The scenes, dialogues, narration, poetry have been put up and written so nicely and even a expert cannot find even a flaw. The magic and questions that movie puts up remains unsolved throughout. And this is the specialty of the movie.

Undoubtedly, the graphics, vfx and animation were the best part. Creating something fake that looks so real and heart touching can't be denied to be said as a masterpiece. Creating a movie on this novel was itself a battle, and making it look so real was miraculous.

Now lets come to acting. Movie was dominated by Indian actors -

Irrfan Khan, Tabu, Suraj Sharma, Adil Hussain. Suraj Sharma was the apple of the eye. His acting moved everyone. His command, his accent(even after being an Indian), his narration all made him look like a professional actor with an experience of alteast 10 years. A student of St. Stephen College, New Delhi, Suraj Sharma was shortlisted in a random audition. Who could have imagined a movie like this will make us witness such a great tallent.

A movie like this is not made everyday. A chef's best dish is a result of perfect ingredients, right flame, right pot and a right chef too. Same was the Life of Pie. All people who worked in and for the movie were the one required. They met each other at the right time and result : A Masterpiece.

I'll give it a 5.