Life of Pi – based on the best selling fantasy adventure novel – has opened the New York film festival.

The movie is about a Hindu boy who gets stranded on a lifeboat for nearly a year with a spotted hyena, an orangutan and a Bengal tiger.

Its director – the Oscar winning Ang Lee – says he went on a personal journey making the film:

Ang Lee has won ‘Best Director’ Oscars for Brokeback Mountain and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

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