PRINCIPAL
CAST MEMBERS
Irrfan Khan: middle-aged Piscine “Pi” Molitor Patel
Rafe Spall: a Canadian author
Ayush Tandon: Pi as the 11-year-old son
Adil Hussein: Pi’s father Santosh, owner of a zoo
Tabu: Pi’s mother Gita
Suraj Sharma: 16-year-old Pi
REVIEW
To my mind movies told in
flashback many times take away the essence of the story by telling us the
ending so I don’t know why they do it so often. Case in point: before we even
learn about the epic struggle of Pi as a teenager, we know he survives. So the
key element is gone. I wish I had missed the first fifteen minutes because this
is really a simple story about survival with frequent references to
spirituality thrown in.
Despite some beautiful images they
only serve to break up the monotony during the second half of the movie and do
nothing to move the narrative along. Consequently it is over two hours long and
overstays its welcome by at least 20 minutes.
However the director seems to have
switched gears somewhere because the ending is told without any visual
references at all and that’s where they could have helped in telling the story.
How odd.
CLASSIFICATION
for emotional thematic content, some scary action
sequences and scenes of peril.
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