Life of Pi is a fictional adventure novel by Yann Martel, published in 2001. In the movie ‘The Protagonist’, Piscine Molitor Patel, a Tamil boy from Pondicherry,discovered issues of spirituality and practicality from an early age. He managed to survive for 227 days after a shipwreck, while stranded on a boat in the Pacific Ocean with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker.