Oscar-winning filmmaker Ang Lee's fantasy adventure Life Of Pi is raking in the moolah at the Indian box-office. The film has earned Rs. 19.5 crore in the country in its opening weekend. The movie, which released Friday, in 2D and 3D format, grossed Rs. 5 crore on the opening day and went on to earn Rs. 19.5 crore over the weekend.

Life Of Pi, based on Yann Martel's Booker Prize-winning novel of the same name, features debutant Suraj Sharma, Tabu and Irrfan Khan in prominent roles. It narrates the tale of a boy who is adrift at sea in a lifeboat with a Royal Bengal tiger after his family is drowned in a shipwreck.

It opened in the country in four languages - English, Hindi, Tamil and Telugu.

The movie captures the hillside town of Munnar along with the elegance of Puducherry. Life Of Pi is said to have received the second highest opening of all time for Fox Star Studios after Avatar.



CRITICS TAKE

Rashid Irani's review: Life Of Pi
The Taiwanese-American filmmaker with the Midas touch, Ang Lee can never be accused of making the same film twice. Determined, as always, to extend the range of his skills beyond such memorable movies as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) and Lust, Caution (2007), the Academy Award winning director (Brokeback Mountain) consolidates his reputation as a versatile auteur with this adaptation of the 2001 bestseller by Yann Martel. FULL REVIEW

Life of Pi review: Ang Lee's tale a hit, say critics
An adaptation of Yann Martel's bestseller about a 16-year-old Indian boy named Pi who survives a shipwreck and crosses the Pacific in a lifeboat, Ang Lee's Life of Pi has managed to impress critics with its extraordinary visual effects, making the 3D exprerience definitely worth a watch. FULL REPORT

LATEST BUZZ

Life Of Pi a must watch, say KJo, Shekhar Kapur
Filmmakers Karan Johar and Shekhar Kapur can't stop praising Oscar-winning filmmaker Ang Lee's Life Of Pi, based on Yann Martel's Booker Prize winning novel of the same name. KAPUR'S TWEEET

LIFE OF PI: Tabu happy being part of good films with Irrfan
Actress Tabu, who has worked with actor Irrfan in three films Maqbool, Namesake and now Life of Pi, is happy that both of them have been part of good films together and hopes for the same in future as well. TABU SPEAKS

Life Of Pi has been my most exhausting movie: Ang Lee
Ang Lee opens his heart about the film in an exclusive interview. "As a filmmaker a challenge of this sort is a great motivation. Could I make it happen? I like that challenge. The hardest thing for me was, how do I take it to a conclusion? How do I examine the theme of illusion within the given range of the illusion of cinema? That was the biggest challenge for me." FULL INTERVIEW

Tabu, Irrfan and Suraj Sharma get candid about Life of Pi
How the promise of a free lunch led Suraj Sharma to unwittingly land the lead role in Ang Lee’s next Suraj Sharma was your average 17-year-old, going to school, without the slightest inkling of what he wanted to do in life. Circumstances, however, landed him at the audition of Ang Lee’s Life Of Pi two years ago. FULL STORY



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