life of Pi is all about Life

                                                         Life of pi is all about life

What is life? Is it the mere existence in the most mechanical and stereotyped way? Or is it a cluster of phases that knots love, hatred, fear, dare, anger, happiness, sadness, helplessness, peace, hard work, ignorance, family, satisfaction, ideas and never ending threads of hope in a living being? The topic begins with lots of questions that will remain unanswered due to the lack of philosophy behind life. If someone questions “what is this shit all about?” then yes this is the only shit that you have been living with and will thrive to live further in the so called journey of life. Watching the movie “life of pi” one shall definitely be thank full to the director for polishing the sensibilities of life, god and existence in the life of people. If one watches this as a movie then one will definitely relish its depiction that has lots of beautiful colours, reflections, ripples and camouflage. But apart from considering it as the movie, if one realizes the soul of it then it will surely wakes you up, keeps you on a side for a moment and discuses the laws of life that are ignored in actual sense. This movie remains typical and hard to understand unless you get yourselves on the board, unleashed from all the worries around and get connected as one of the characters in the movie. It’s a worthy lecture that remains visually stupendous and emotionally arresting.

The movie starts off with different animals beautifully grooming on screen, traditional Carnatic music playing and the titles getting camouflaged in the scenic backgrounds. Life of pi is the story of a boy “Piscine Molitor Patel” (gautham belur/ ayush tendon/Suraj Sharma/ Irfan Khan) who is named after the famous swimming pool in Paris. The name that sounds like “pissing” embarrasses the little one throughout his schooling. It actually forces this vegetarian, timid boy who lives in a zoo keeping family in Pondicherry to cut it short to “pi”. The story starts with a novelist who approaches pi in his late thirties and asks him about his life story to make it as a plot for his next book. The narration swaps back and forth unlacing the adventurous and meaningful journey that pi faces in his late teenage.

The story deals with lots of analysis about the things that everyone will certainly come across in daily routine. Rather than making its decisions and being judgmental  it makes us to think and allows us to flow with the things that comfy us. One can say it has the best path shown towards the approach of almighty, particularly the scene when pi thanks lord Krishna for introducing him to Jesus.  It opens up our thoughts and fills some meaning full stuff for a better living. The story doesn't stay on the lines of divinity either; it fairly supports the modern science with its engrossing and sensible dialogues.  The story has a perfectly cooked, unbiased touch to the rushing currents of life. It has the characters of pi’s parents played by Tabu and Adil hussain who evolve to build up the character of pi in a brighter way that helps him to survive his cast-away period. Though the roles of Tabu, adil Hussain and Sravanthi Sainath were very brief to portray they had lots of intentions and philosophy to speak about. The Bengal tiger which is accidentally named Richard Parker by some flawed records is literally engrossing. The scenes depicting his survival intentions are magnificently made. The cast-away period of pi remains the heart and soul of the film that teaches the sensitivity and philosophy behind living. The best part of the movie is one can easily correlate every intention behind a scene to one’s life. So it remains to be the part of the game throughout its duration with pi’s instance as an example. Coming to the technicalities it is just marvelous  The sets, cinematography, editing, visual effects are so good that any positive adjective will be a step behind in comparing them.

Audience go speechless in the scenes of jelly fishes floating all around, the sequence of floating islands and the mighty blue whale magnanimously flying over the little boat goes on par with the standards of James Cameron’s magnum opus Avatar.  They were visually stunning. Director Ang lee has no special mention in this little piece of review as it is not a sufficient credit to his superficial view in crafting the cinema. A piece of writing isn't sufficient to appreciate him perhaps a standing ovation is worthy of it. The very little flaw that one easily ignores in this movie is pi arguing with his father at an instance and slips out suddenly that “Columbus discovered India”. Sorry I am afraid it’s the Cape of Good Hope after all where he landed.

But on a whole the movie gives you a life time experience and sincerely speaking it’s just not a movie but it’s all about life. 

Four stars for this deeply engrossing tale.

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Uncountable cheers to Ang lee, the director who redefined the status of life and cinema.