For the uninitiated, Life of Pi follows Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel, a young Indian boy from Pondicherry who grows up in his family’s zoo. After his family decides to move to Canada, the ship carrying them sinks in a storm. Pi finds himself stranded on a lifeboat with an unlikely companion: a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger named Richard Parker.
When Pi tells the Japanese officials the “better story” (the one with the animals), his Tamil narration makes the metaphor more accessible. Tamil audiences immediately recognize the allegorical style common in our folk tales (கதைகள்). Life Of Pi Movie Tamil Dubbed