Released in 2012, Life of Pi is an adventure drama film adapted from Yann Martel's bestselling 2001 novel [en.wikipedia.org, study.com]. The story follows Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel, an Indian boy from Pondicherry who survives a catastrophic shipwreck in the Pacific Ocean [study.com]. He finds himself stranded on a lifeboat for 227 days with a ferocious Bengal tiger named Richard Parker [irisholidays.com].