“‘You become the movie you are making,' the Oscar-winning director Ang Lee told Anupama Chopra in a recent telephone interview. “Given that the movie in question is ‘Life of Pi,' based on the award-winning, fantastical novel about a boy and a Bengal tiger marooned on a boat for 227 days, Mr. Lee is feeling a bit more at sea than usual these days,†Ms.Chopra wrote in The New York Times.
The film began with a two-week shoot at locales in southern India in March 2011, Ms. Chopra wrote. The younger Pi is “played by an unknown 17-year-old Indian teenager named Suraj Sharma, whose parents just happen to be mathematicians,†she wrote. “A coincidence that gave Mr. Lee a big laugh : ‘What are the chances,' he asked, that two mathematicians give birth to a kid who plays the lead in a film called ‘Life of Pi'?â€
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