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- So you were raised in a zoo?
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- Born and raised.
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- In Pondicherry, in what was
- the French part of India.
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- My father owned the zoo...
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- 00:04:07,914 --> 00:04:11,214
- and I was delivered on short
- notice by a herpetologist...
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- 00:04:11,376 --> 00:04:14,880
- who was there to check
- on the Bengal monitor lizard.
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- Mother and I
- were both healthy...
- 8
- 00:04:17,591 --> 00:04:19,218
- but the poor lizard escaped...
- 9
- 00:04:19,384 --> 00:04:22,433
- and was trampled
- by a frightened cassowary.
- 10
- 00:04:24,681 --> 00:04:26,900
- The way of karma, huh?
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- The way of God.
- 12
- 00:04:30,228 --> 00:04:32,151
- That's quite a story.
- 13
- 00:04:32,606 --> 00:04:34,028
- I had assumed your father was a
- 14
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- mathematician
- because of your name.
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- Far from it, I was named
- after a swimming pool.
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- 00:04:39,613 --> 00:04:41,786
- There is a swimming pool named "Pi"?
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- 00:04:43,074 --> 00:04:45,202
- You see,
- my uncle Francis was born
- 18
- 00:04:45,327 --> 00:04:47,455
- with too much
- water in his lungs.
- 19
- 00:04:47,788 --> 00:04:49,882
- They say the doctors
- swung Francis around
- 20
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- by the ankles to
- clear the water out...
- 21
- 00:04:52,250 --> 00:04:54,924
- and that's what gave him the
- huge chest and skinny legs...
- 22
- 00:04:55,086 --> 00:04:57,384
- that made him
- such a great swimmer.
- 23
- 00:04:58,298 --> 00:05:00,016
- Is Francis actually your uncle?
- 24
- 00:05:00,133 --> 00:05:01,885
- He said he was
- friends with your father.
- 25
- 00:05:02,052 --> 00:05:05,056
- He's my honorary uncle,
- I call him Mamaji.
- 26
- 00:05:05,222 --> 00:05:07,975
- My father's best friend,
- my swimming guru.
- 27
- 00:05:08,308 --> 00:05:11,733
- I trained with him three
- times a week at the ashram.
- 28
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- His lessons would save my
- life in the end.
- 29
- 00:05:15,607 --> 00:05:20,113
- A mouthful of water will not
- harm you, but panic will.
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- 00:05:21,446 --> 00:05:24,620
- Remember to breathe now,
- don't hold your breath.
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- Good boy.
- 32
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- I hope you don't
- mind vegetarian.
- 33
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- No, no. Not at all.
- 34
- 00:05:34,292 --> 00:05:36,260
- And your name?
- Huh?
- 35
- 00:05:36,670 --> 00:05:39,423
- You were going to tell me how
- you got your name, I think.
- 36
- 00:05:39,589 --> 00:05:43,594
- Oh, yes. I got it from something
- Mamaji once told my father.
- 37
- 00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:45,478
- You see, most travelers collect
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- postcards or teacups
- on their journeys...
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- 00:05:47,347 --> 00:05:48,348
- but not Mamaji.
- 40
- 00:05:48,515 --> 00:05:50,609
- Mamaji collects swimming pools.
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- He swims in every
- pool he comes upon.
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- 00:06:01,695 --> 00:06:03,493
- One day, Mamaji
- said to my father that,
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- of all the pools
- in the world...
- 44
- 00:06:05,615 --> 00:06:08,960
- the most beautiful was
- a public pool in Paris.
- 45
- 00:06:09,119 --> 00:06:10,712
- That the water
- there was so clear,
- 46
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- you could make your
- morning coffee with it.
- 47
- 00:06:13,164 --> 00:06:16,509
- That a single swim
- there changed his life.
- 48
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- Before I was born, he said...
- 49
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- "If you want your son
- to have a clean soul...
- 50
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- you must take him one day to
- swim in the Piscine Molitor."
- 51
- 00:06:39,649 --> 00:06:43,495
- I never understood why my father
- took this so much to heart.
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- But he did, and I was named
- "Piscine Molitor Patel."
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- 00:06:49,993 --> 00:06:52,371
- Imagine me trying
- to explain that name.
- 54
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- I barely made it to
- the age of 11 before...
- 55
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- Hey, Piscine!
- 56
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- Are you pissing right now?
- 57
- 00:07:01,838 --> 00:07:03,385
- Look at him, he's pissing!
- 58
- 00:07:03,548 --> 00:07:07,724
- With one word, my name went from
- an elegant French swimming pool...
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- 00:07:07,886 --> 00:07:09,684
- to a stinking Indian latrine.
- 60
- 00:07:09,763 --> 00:07:11,686
- I was "Pissing" everywhere.
- 61
- 00:07:11,848 --> 00:07:14,522
- No Pissing in the schoolyard!
- 62
- 00:07:15,894 --> 00:07:17,692
- Even the teachers
- started doing it.
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- Not deliberately, of course.
- 64
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- So, then, what might occur
- if we release gas too quickly?
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- Pissing?
- 66
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- He said "Pissing."
- 67
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- That's enough!
- Order! Order!
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- When we returned the next
- year for our first day of school,
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- I was prepared.
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- Present, sir.
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- Piscine Patel.
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- Good morning.
- I am Piscine Molitor Patel.
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- Known to all as...
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- Pi, the sixteenth letter
- of the Greek alphabet...
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- 00:07:59,896 --> 00:08:03,571
- which is also used in mathematics
- to represent the ratio...
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- 00:08:03,733 --> 00:08:07,237
- of any circle's circumference
- to its diameter.
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- 00:08:07,404 --> 00:08:09,452
- An irrational number
- of infinite length,
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- 00:08:09,572 --> 00:08:11,666
- usually rounded
- to three digits...
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- 00:08:11,825 --> 00:08:12,369
- as 3.14.
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- Pi.
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- 00:08:20,083 --> 00:08:24,589
- Very impressive, Pi.
- Now, sit down.
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- 00:08:28,174 --> 00:08:29,767
- And from then on,
- you were "Pi"?
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- 00:08:30,343 --> 00:08:32,471
- Well, no, not quite.
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- 00:08:32,846 --> 00:08:34,689
- Nice try, Pissing.
- 85
- 00:08:36,433 --> 00:08:38,686
- But I still had the whole
- day ahead of me.
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- 00:08:38,852 --> 00:08:40,445
- French class was next.
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- Je m'appelle
- Piscine Molitor Patel.
- 88
- 00:08:43,273 --> 00:08:44,616
- Dit Pi.
- 89
- 00:08:46,818 --> 00:08:48,320
- Then, geography.
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- 00:08:48,486 --> 00:08:52,116
- These are the first
- 20 decimal places of pi.
- 91
- 00:08:52,282 --> 00:08:55,286
- My last class of the
- day was mathematics.
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- 00:08:55,827 --> 00:08:59,877
- Slowly, slowly, slowly.
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- 00:09:04,377 --> 00:09:11,306
- Three.
- Seven. Five. Eight. Nine.
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- 00:09:11,468 --> 00:09:16,144
- Eight. Five. Eight. Nine.
- 95
- 00:09:16,306 --> 00:09:19,150
- It's right.
- He's really doing this.
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- 00:09:19,309 --> 00:09:22,734
- Pi! Pi! Pi!
- 97
- 00:09:22,896 --> 00:09:27,823
- By the end of that day,
- I was Pi Patel, school legend.
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- 00:09:29,027 --> 00:09:32,577
- Um, Mamaji tells me you're a
- legend among sailors, too.
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- 00:09:32,655 --> 00:09:33,872
- Out there, all alone.
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- 00:09:34,032 --> 00:09:36,205
- Oh, I don't even know
- how to sail.
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- 00:09:36,367 --> 00:09:39,496
- And I wasn't alone out there.
- Richard Parker was with me.
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- 00:09:40,497 --> 00:09:42,374
- Richard Parker?
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- 00:09:42,540 --> 00:09:44,042
- Mamaji didn't tell me
- everything.
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- 00:09:44,209 --> 00:09:47,053
- He just said I should look you
- up when I got back to Montreal.
- 105
- 00:09:47,212 --> 00:09:49,055
- So, what were you
- doing in Pondicherry?
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- 00:09:50,423 --> 00:09:52,346
- Writing a novel.
- 107
- 00:09:52,509 --> 00:09:54,352
- By the way,
- I enjoyed your first book.
- 108
- 00:09:55,220 --> 00:09:57,018
- So, this new one,
- is it set in India?
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- 00:09:57,180 --> 00:10:00,684
- No, Portugal, actually. But
- it's cheaper living in India.
- 110
- 00:10:02,268 --> 00:10:05,442
- Ah, well, I look
- forward to reading it.
- 111
- 00:10:05,522 --> 00:10:06,569
- You can't.
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- 00:10:07,357 --> 00:10:08,950
- I threw it out.
- 113
- 00:10:09,109 --> 00:10:10,950
- Two years trying to bring
- this thing to life...
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- 00:10:11,027 --> 00:10:14,952
- and then one day, it
- sputtered, coughed and died.
- 115
- 00:10:16,241 --> 00:10:17,618
- Oh, I'm sorry.
- 116
- 00:10:19,077 --> 00:10:22,957
- Uh, I was sitting in this coffee
- house in Pondicherry one afternoon,
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- 00:10:23,039 --> 00:10:24,165
- mourning my loss...
- 118
- 00:10:24,249 --> 00:10:28,095
- when this old man at the table next
- to me struck up a conversation.
- 119
- 00:10:28,211 --> 00:10:29,929
- Yeah, Mamaji, he does that.
- 120
- 00:10:30,088 --> 00:10:32,088
- When I told him about my
- abandoned book, he said...
- 121
- 00:10:32,090 --> 00:10:34,309
- "So, a
- Canadian who's come to French India
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- 00:10:34,384 --> 00:10:36,057
- in search of a story."
- 123
- 00:10:36,219 --> 00:10:39,268
- "Well, my friend, I know an
- Indian in French Canada...
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- 00:10:39,430 --> 00:10:42,229
- with the most
- incredible story to tell."
- 125
- 00:10:42,392 --> 00:10:46,568
- "It must be fate that the
- two of you should meet."
- 126
- 00:10:49,732 --> 00:10:53,111
- Well, I haven't spoken about
- Richard Parker in so many years.
- 127
- 00:10:53,278 --> 00:10:55,906
- So, what has
- Mamaji already told you?
- 128
- 00:10:56,072 --> 00:10:59,667
- He said you had a story that
- would make me believe in God.
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- 00:10:59,826 --> 00:11:03,251
- He would
- say that about a nice meal.
- 130
- 00:11:04,664 --> 00:11:07,258
- As for God, I can only
- tell you my story.
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- 00:11:08,751 --> 00:11:11,095
- You will decide for yourself
- what you believe.
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- 00:11:11,254 --> 00:11:12,927
- Fair enough.
- 133
- 00:11:13,673 --> 00:11:16,017
- Let's see, then.
- Where to begin?
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- 00:11:17,010 --> 00:11:21,311
- Pondicherry is the
- French Riviera of India.
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- 00:11:25,351 --> 00:11:27,399
- In the streets
- closest to the ocean,
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- 00:11:27,478 --> 00:11:30,197
- you might think you were
- in the south of France.
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- 00:11:32,984 --> 00:11:35,783
- A few blocks inland,
- there's a canal.
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- 00:11:35,945 --> 00:11:38,289
- Just beyond that
- is Indian Pondicherry.
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- 00:11:39,282 --> 00:11:42,832
- And the Muslim quarter
- is just to the west.
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- 00:11:42,994 --> 00:11:46,464
- When the French handed Pondicherry
- back to us in 1954...
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- 00:11:46,623 --> 00:11:50,127
- the town decided that some sort
- of commemoration was in order.
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- 00:11:50,501 --> 00:11:54,131
- My father, who was a clever
- businessman, came up with one.
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- 00:11:54,297 --> 00:11:57,722
- He ran a hotel, and he got
- the idea to open a zoo...
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- 00:11:57,884 --> 00:12:00,683
- in the local
- botanical gardens instead.
- 145
- 00:12:02,972 --> 00:12:07,022
- As it also happened, my mother
- was a botanist in the gardens.
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- 00:12:07,185 --> 00:12:11,907
- They met, married, and a year
- later my brother Ravi was born.
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- 00:12:12,065 --> 00:12:14,238
- I came two years after that.
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- 00:12:14,984 --> 00:12:18,409
- It sounds magical,
- growing up in...
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- Amen.
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- 00:12:26,329 --> 00:12:28,172
- Yeah, let's eat.
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- 00:12:28,498 --> 00:12:30,171
- I didn't know
- Hindus said "amen."
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- 00:12:30,333 --> 00:12:31,676
- Catholic Hindus do.
- 153
- 00:12:31,834 --> 00:12:32,926
- Catholic Hindus?
- 154
- 00:12:33,002 --> 00:12:37,007
- We get to feel guilty before hundreds
- of gods, instead of just one.
- 155
- 00:12:38,049 --> 00:12:40,427
- But you're a Hindu first?
- 156
- 00:12:40,593 --> 00:12:43,563
- None of us knows God
- until someone introduces us.
- 157
- 00:12:43,721 --> 00:12:46,520
- I was first introduced
- to God as a Hindu.
- 158
- 00:12:46,683 --> 00:12:49,277
- There are 33 million gods
- in the Hindu religion.
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- 00:12:49,435 --> 00:12:51,529
- How can I not come to
- know a few of them?
- 160
- 00:12:53,273 --> 00:12:56,277
- I met Krishna first.
- 161
- 00:12:58,236 --> 00:13:00,238
- Yashoda once accused
- baby Krishna of eating dirt.
- 162
- 00:13:01,030 --> 00:13:05,080
- "Tut, tut you naughty boy -
- you shouldn't do that."
- 163
- 00:13:05,493 --> 00:13:08,292
- But he didn't!
- 164
- 00:13:09,372 --> 00:13:10,840
- That's what he told her.
- 165
- 00:13:10,957 --> 00:13:12,925
- "I didn't eat dirt."
- 166
- 00:13:13,626 --> 00:13:16,721
- Yashoda said,
- "No? Well then..."
- 167
- 00:13:16,921 --> 00:13:19,049
- "Open your mouth."
- 168
- 00:13:19,215 --> 00:13:21,968
- So Krishna opened his mouth.
- 169
- 00:13:22,135 --> 00:13:24,137
- And what do you think
- Yashoda saw?
- 170
- 00:13:24,220 --> 00:13:25,437
- What?
- 171
- 00:13:26,222 --> 00:13:33,822
- She saw in Krishna's mouth
- the whole entire universe.
- 172
- 00:14:01,090 --> 00:14:04,139
- The gods were my
- superheroes growing up.
- 173
- 00:14:04,302 --> 00:14:06,600
- Hanuman, the monkey god...
- 174
- 00:14:06,763 --> 00:14:10,609
- lifting an entire mountain
- to save his friend Lakshman.
- 175
- 00:14:10,767 --> 00:14:13,111
- Ganesh, the elephant-headed...
- 176
- 00:14:13,269 --> 00:14:17,524
- risking his life to defend the
- honor of his mother, Parvati.
- 177
- 00:14:17,774 --> 00:14:22,780
- Vishnu, the supreme soul,
- the source of all things.
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- 00:14:23,363 --> 00:14:26,867
- Vishnu sleeps, floating on the
- shoreless cosmic ocean...
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- 00:14:27,033 --> 00:14:29,957
- and we are
- the stuff of his dreaming.
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- 00:14:31,454 --> 00:14:33,331
- Spectacle.
- 181
- 00:14:33,790 --> 00:14:37,795
- Don't let these stories and
- pretty lights fool you, boys.
- 182
- 00:14:37,960 --> 00:14:42,056
- Religion is darkness.
- 183
- 00:14:44,384 --> 00:14:47,854
- My dear appa believed
- himself part of the new India.
- 184
- 00:14:48,679 --> 00:14:50,977
- As a child, he had had polio.
- 185
- 00:14:51,140 --> 00:14:55,361
- He used to lie in bed racked with
- pain, wondering where God was.
- 186
- 00:14:56,187 --> 00:15:00,363
- In the end, God didn't save
- him, Western medicine did.
- 187
- 00:15:03,653 --> 00:15:05,155
- My amma went to college...
- 188
- 00:15:05,321 --> 00:15:08,165
- and thought her family was part
- of the new India as well...
- 189
- 00:15:08,324 --> 00:15:09,997
- until her parents
- cut her off...
- 190
- 00:15:10,159 --> 00:15:12,537
- because they thought
- she was marrying beneath her.
- 191
- 00:15:13,663 --> 00:15:17,418
- Her religion was the only
- link she had to her past.
- 192
- 00:15:27,051 --> 00:15:30,726
- I met Christ in the
- mountains when I was 12.
- 193
- 00:15:30,888 --> 00:15:34,609
- We were visiting relatives,
- tea growers in Munnar.
- 194
- 00:15:34,767 --> 00:15:39,022
- It was our third day there.
- Ravi and I were terribly bored.
- 195
- 00:15:39,188 --> 00:15:42,112
- Challenge.
- I'll give you two rupees.
- 196
- 00:15:42,275 --> 00:15:45,449
- Run in to that church
- and drink the holy water.
- 197
- 00:16:24,609 --> 00:16:26,202
- You must be thirsty.
- 198
- 00:16:29,655 --> 00:16:31,453
- Here.
- 199
- 00:16:31,616 --> 00:16:33,414
- I brought you this.
- 200
- 00:16:48,591 --> 00:16:51,470
- Why would a god do that?
- 201
- 00:16:51,636 --> 00:16:53,764
- Why would
- He send His own son...
- 202
- 00:16:53,930 --> 00:16:57,309
- to suffer for the sins
- of ordinary people?
- 203
- 00:16:57,475 --> 00:16:59,443
- Because He loves us.
- 204
- 00:17:00,186 --> 00:17:02,814
- God made Himself
- approachable to us,
- 205
- 00:17:02,939 --> 00:17:05,613
- human,
- so we could understand Him.
- 206
- 00:17:05,775 --> 00:17:08,369
- We can't understand God
- in all His perfection.
- 207
- 00:17:08,528 --> 00:17:11,122
- But we can understand God's son
- 208
- 00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:13,874
- and His suffering
- as we would a brother's.
- 209
- 00:17:14,116 --> 00:17:16,335
- That made no sense.
- 210
- 00:17:16,494 --> 00:17:20,965
- Sacrificing the innocent to atone
- for the sins of the guilty...
- 211
- 00:17:21,123 --> 00:17:23,125
- What kind of love is that?
- 212
- 00:17:25,795 --> 00:17:27,638
- But this son...
- 213
- 00:17:27,797 --> 00:17:29,299
- I couldn't get
- him out of my head.
- 214
- 00:17:32,468 --> 00:17:35,472
- If God is so
- perfect and we are not...
- 215
- 00:17:35,888 --> 00:17:38,687
- why would He want
- to create all this?
- 216
- 00:17:38,849 --> 00:17:41,227
- Why does He need us at all?
- 217
- 00:17:41,394 --> 00:17:44,523
- All you have to know
- is that He loves us.
- 218
- 00:17:44,981 --> 00:17:47,905
- God so loved this world
- that He gave His only son.
- 219
- 00:17:48,067 --> 00:17:50,035
- The longer
- I listened to the priest...
- 220
- 00:17:50,194 --> 00:17:53,198
- the more I came to like
- this son of God.
- 221
- 00:17:53,364 --> 00:17:57,335
- Thank you, Vishnu,
- for introducing me to Christ.
- 222
- 00:18:04,875 --> 00:18:07,128
- I came to faith
- through Hinduism
- 223
- 00:18:07,253 --> 00:18:09,506
- and I found God's
- love through Christ.
- 224
- 00:18:09,672 --> 00:18:12,175
- But God wasn't
- finished with me yet.
- 225
- 00:18:22,268 --> 00:18:24,862
- God works in mysterious ways.
- 226
- 00:18:25,021 --> 00:18:27,524
- And so it was,
- He introduced Himself again.
- 227
- 00:18:27,857 --> 00:18:30,406
- This time by the name of Allah.
- 228
- 00:18:46,083 --> 00:18:47,710
- Allahu Akbar.
- 229
- 00:18:50,254 --> 00:18:52,552
- My Arabic
- was never very good...
- 230
- 00:18:52,715 --> 00:18:56,390
- but the sound and feel of the
- words brought me closer to God.
- 231
- 00:18:56,552 --> 00:18:57,769
- In performing Salah...
- 232
- 00:18:57,928 --> 00:19:00,101
- the ground I touched
- became holy ground...
- 233
- 00:19:00,264 --> 00:19:03,734
- and I found a feeling
- of serenity and brotherhood.
- 234
- 00:19:13,444 --> 00:19:16,072
- This lamb is exquisite.
- 235
- 00:19:16,572 --> 00:19:18,791
- It's the best
- dish on the table.
- 236
- 00:19:19,241 --> 00:19:20,959
- You're all missing out.
- 237
- 00:19:22,411 --> 00:19:25,585
- You only need to convert to three
- more religions, Piscine...
- 238
- 00:19:25,748 --> 00:19:28,922
- and you will spend your life on holiday.
- 239
- 00:19:29,168 --> 00:19:32,422
- Are you going to Mecca
- this year, Swami Jesus?
- 240
- 00:19:32,588 --> 00:19:35,842
- Or to Rome for your
- coronation as Pope Pi-us?
- 241
- 00:19:36,092 --> 00:19:37,765
- You stay out of this, Ravi.
- 242
- 00:19:37,927 --> 00:19:40,021
- Just as you like cricket,
- Pi has his own interests.
- 243
- 00:19:40,179 --> 00:19:42,432
- No, Gita, Ravi has a point.
- 244
- 00:19:42,807 --> 00:19:47,153
- You cannot follow three different
- religions at the same time, Piscine.
- 245
- 00:19:47,311 --> 00:19:48,608
- Why not?
- 246
- 00:19:48,771 --> 00:19:52,366
- Because believing in
- everything at the same time...
- 247
- 00:19:52,525 --> 00:19:55,779
- is the same as not believing
- in anything at all.
- 248
- 00:19:55,945 --> 00:19:59,119
- He's young, Santosh.
- He's still finding his way.
- 249
- 00:19:59,281 --> 00:20:02,706
- And how can he find his way
- if he does not choose a path?
- 250
- 00:20:03,452 --> 00:20:07,832
- Listen, instead of leaping from
- one religion to the next...
- 251
- 00:20:07,998 --> 00:20:10,000
- why not start with reason?
- 252
- 00:20:10,710 --> 00:20:12,007
- In a few hundred years...
- 253
- 00:20:12,169 --> 00:20:14,888
- science has taken us farther in
- understanding the universe...
- 254
- 00:20:15,047 --> 00:20:17,800
- than religion has in 10,000.
- 255
- 00:20:19,552 --> 00:20:21,350
- That is true.
- 256
- 00:20:21,512 --> 00:20:22,809
- Your father is right.
- 257
- 00:20:23,514 --> 00:20:26,518
- Science can teach us more
- about what is out there...
- 258
- 00:20:26,684 --> 00:20:28,482
- but not what is in here.
- 259
- 00:20:29,645 --> 00:20:32,194
- Some eat meat,
- some eat vegetable.
- 260
- 00:20:32,356 --> 00:20:34,700
- I do not expect us all
- to agree about everything...
- 261
- 00:20:34,859 --> 00:20:36,702
- but I would much
- rather have you
- 262
- 00:20:36,777 --> 00:20:38,529
- believe in something
- I don't agree with...
- 263
- 00:20:38,696 --> 00:20:41,495
- than to accept
- everything blindly.
- 264
- 00:20:41,657 --> 00:20:45,503
- And that begins
- with thinking rationally.
- 265
- 00:20:46,871 --> 00:20:48,669
- Do you understand?
- 266
- 00:20:51,083 --> 00:20:52,551
- Good.
- 267
- 00:20:58,507 --> 00:21:00,430
- I would like to be baptized.
- 268
- 00:21:07,057 --> 00:21:09,435
- So, you're a Christian
- and a Muslim?
- 269
- 00:21:09,602 --> 00:21:11,024
- And a Hindu, of course.
- 270
- 00:21:11,187 --> 00:21:12,359
- And a Jew, I suppose.
- 271
- 00:21:12,521 --> 00:21:15,525
- Well, I do teach a course on the
- Kabbalah at the university.
- 272
- 00:21:15,691 --> 00:21:18,365
- And why not? Faith is a
- house with many rooms.
- 273
- 00:21:18,527 --> 00:21:20,120
- But no room for doubt?
- 274
- 00:21:20,279 --> 00:21:21,952
- Oh, plenty.
- On every floor.
- 275
- 00:21:22,114 --> 00:21:23,536
- Doubt is useful.
- 276
- 00:21:23,699 --> 00:21:25,747
- It keeps faith a living thing.
- 277
- 00:21:25,910 --> 00:21:28,083
- After all, you cannot know
- the strength of your faith
- 278
- 00:21:28,162 --> 00:21:29,379
- until it's been tested.
- 279
- 00:21:33,459 --> 00:21:36,212
- Where's Selvam? We shouldn't
- be in here without him.
- 280
- 00:21:36,378 --> 00:21:37,880
- Stop worrying.
- 281
- 00:21:39,548 --> 00:21:42,392
- I have seen him
- do this a thousand times.
- 282
- 00:21:44,887 --> 00:21:47,766
- I want to meet our new tiger.
- 283
- 00:21:48,766 --> 00:21:49,813
- Pi!
- 284
- 00:21:49,892 --> 00:21:52,566
- Hello? Richard Parker?
- 285
- 00:21:52,937 --> 00:21:55,941
- A tiger? Richard
- Parker was a tiger?
- 286
- 00:21:56,106 --> 00:21:58,950
- Yeah, he got his name
- through a clerical error.
- 287
- 00:21:59,109 --> 00:22:02,113
- A hunter caught him drinking from
- a stream when he was a cub...
- 288
- 00:22:02,279 --> 00:22:04,077
- and named him Thirsty.
- 289
- 00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:07,244
- When Thirsty got too big, the
- hunter sold him to our zoo...
- 290
- 00:22:07,409 --> 00:22:10,253
- but the names got switched on
- the paperwork.
- 291
- 00:22:10,996 --> 00:22:12,873
- The hunter was listed
- as Thirsty,
- 292
- 00:22:12,957 --> 00:22:14,834
- and the tiger
- was called Richard Parker.
- 293
- 00:22:15,417 --> 00:22:18,637
- We laughed about it,
- and the name stuck.
- 294
- 00:22:19,004 --> 00:22:20,506
- Let's go...
- 295
- 00:22:21,257 --> 00:22:23,476
- before we get into trouble.
- 296
- 00:22:23,634 --> 00:22:25,477
- I want to see him close up.
- 297
- 00:22:25,636 --> 00:22:27,104
- You're not a zookeeper.
- 298
- 00:22:27,513 --> 00:22:29,106
- Come on!
- 299
- 00:22:47,449 --> 00:22:49,622
- That's it, Richard Parker.
- 300
- 00:22:49,785 --> 00:22:51,503
- It's for you.
- 301
- 00:23:20,983 --> 00:23:21,984
- No!
- 302
- 00:23:23,193 --> 00:23:25,321
- What are you thinking?
- 303
- 00:23:25,821 --> 00:23:27,164
- Are you out of your mind?
- 304
- 00:23:27,323 --> 00:23:29,371
- Who gave you permission
- to come back here?
- 305
- 00:23:29,533 --> 00:23:32,912
- You have just ignored everything
- I've ever taught you.
- 306
- 00:23:33,662 --> 00:23:36,256
- I just wanted to
- say hello to him.
- 307
- 00:23:36,707 --> 00:23:38,505
- You think that tiger
- is your friend?
- 308
- 00:23:38,667 --> 00:23:41,011
- He's an animal, not a playmate.
- 309
- 00:23:42,171 --> 00:23:44,344
- Animals have souls.
- 310
- 00:23:44,506 --> 00:23:46,850
- I have seen it in their eyes.
- 311
- 00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:51,097
- Find Selvam.
- 312
- 00:24:02,024 --> 00:24:04,777
- You're sure, Sir?
- Pi's just a boy.
- 313
- 00:24:04,860 --> 00:24:06,862
- Do it. Go ahead!
- 314
- 00:24:07,863 --> 00:24:10,537
- Animals do not think
- like we do.
- 315
- 00:24:10,699 --> 00:24:13,543
- People who forget that
- get themselves killed.
- 316
- 00:24:13,702 --> 00:24:17,878
- That tiger is not your friend.
- 317
- 00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:19,542
- When you look into his eyes...
- 318
- 00:24:19,708 --> 00:24:23,133
- you are seeing your own
- emotions reflected back at you.
- 319
- 00:24:23,295 --> 00:24:25,047
- Nothing else.
- 320
- 00:24:25,381 --> 00:24:27,141
- Don't be stupid.
- Say you're sorry.
- 321
- 00:24:28,884 --> 00:24:30,761
- What have you done, Piscine?
- 322
- 00:24:30,928 --> 00:24:33,226
- You know what your father
- said about coming back here.
- 323
- 00:24:33,889 --> 00:24:37,234
- I am sorry. I was...
- 324
- 00:24:37,726 --> 00:24:39,148
- What are you thinking?
- 325
- 00:24:39,311 --> 00:24:41,063
- This is between
- a father and his sons.
- 326
- 00:24:42,940 --> 00:24:44,317
- He said he's sorry.
- 327
- 00:24:44,483 --> 00:24:45,951
- You want to scar them for life?
- 328
- 00:24:46,110 --> 00:24:49,080
- Scar them?
- That boy almost lost his arm.
- 329
- 00:24:49,238 --> 00:24:50,581
- But he's still a boy.
- 330
- 00:24:50,739 --> 00:24:52,457
- He will be a man
- sooner than you think.
- 331
- 00:24:52,616 --> 00:24:55,586
- And this is a lesson I do not
- want them ever to forget.
- 332
- 00:24:56,328 --> 00:24:57,750
- Selvam!
- 333
- 00:25:45,836 --> 00:25:48,756
- ...and so has placed
- the country in a state of emergency.
- 334
- 00:25:48,839 --> 00:25:52,139
- Under the directive, the states
- of Gujarat and Tamil Nadu...
- 335
- 00:25:52,301 --> 00:25:55,350
- will be placed under the direct
- authority of the central government.
- 336
- 00:25:55,512 --> 00:25:57,230
- Police will be granted powers...
- 337
- 00:25:57,389 --> 00:25:59,733
- to arrest and indefinitely
- detain citizens
- 338
- 00:25:59,808 --> 00:26:01,526
- responsible for the uprising.
- 339
- 00:26:06,065 --> 00:26:09,820
- Things changed after
- the day of Appa's lesson.
- 340
- 00:26:09,985 --> 00:26:12,659
- The world had lost
- some of its enchantment.
- 341
- 00:26:13,155 --> 00:26:16,830
- School was a bore. Nothing but
- facts, fractions and French.
- 342
- 00:26:17,367 --> 00:26:21,417
- Words and patterns that went
- on and on, without end.
- 343
- 00:26:21,580 --> 00:26:24,083
- Just like
- my irrational nickname.
- 344
- 00:26:29,004 --> 00:26:31,553
- I grew restless
- searching for something
- 345
- 00:26:31,673 --> 00:26:34,267
- that might bring meaning
- back into my life.
- 346
- 00:26:35,427 --> 00:26:38,101
- And then, I met Anandi.
- 347
- 00:26:47,064 --> 00:26:48,862
- Mother made me study music.
- 348
- 00:26:49,024 --> 00:26:51,447
- And one day, my teacher
- came down with the flu.
- 349
- 00:26:52,027 --> 00:26:53,745
- He asked if
- I could take his place,
- 350
- 00:26:53,821 --> 00:26:55,619
- playing rhythms
- for a dance class.
- 351
- 00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:13,097
- No.
- 352
- 00:27:13,590 --> 00:27:15,217
- If you do not concentrate...
- 353
- 00:27:15,384 --> 00:27:18,763
- you cannot express your
- love of God through dance.
- 354
- 00:27:18,929 --> 00:27:21,057
- Feel the ground
- beneath your feet.
- 355
- 00:27:21,223 --> 00:27:23,726
- Open your gaze out
- onto the horizon.
- 356
- 00:27:23,892 --> 00:27:28,443
- Let that spiritual energy pulse
- through you and out into the world.
- 357
- 00:27:28,647 --> 00:27:30,570
- Through abhinaya.
- 358
- 00:27:31,233 --> 00:27:33,827
- Anandi, come to the front.
- Lead them.
- 359
- 00:28:18,614 --> 00:28:20,616
- Why are you following me?
- 360
- 00:28:20,782 --> 00:28:21,874
- What?
- 361
- 00:28:22,284 --> 00:28:24,662
- You were following me.
- 362
- 00:28:27,039 --> 00:28:29,133
- What does this mean?
- 363
- 00:28:30,500 --> 00:28:33,219
- In the dance,
- you went from pataka...
- 364
- 00:28:33,795 --> 00:28:35,843
- which means the forest.
- 365
- 00:28:36,006 --> 00:28:38,805
- And then you did...
- 366
- 00:28:40,010 --> 00:28:41,353
- samputa...
- 367
- 00:28:41,511 --> 00:28:44,185
- which means
- something that is hidden.
- 368
- 00:28:44,348 --> 00:28:45,975
- And after that, you did this.
- 369
- 00:28:47,726 --> 00:28:50,195
- And then you did chatura.
- 370
- 00:28:50,354 --> 00:28:53,904
- But at the very end,
- you did this.
- 371
- 00:28:54,900 --> 00:28:57,323
- None of the other
- dancers did that.
- 372
- 00:28:58,028 --> 00:29:00,656
- What did you mean? The god of
- love is hiding in the forest?
- 373
- 00:29:00,822 --> 00:29:03,666
- No, that also means
- the lotus flower.
- 374
- 00:29:04,201 --> 00:29:06,499
- Lotus flower
- is hiding in the forest?
- 375
- 00:29:07,663 --> 00:29:10,416
- Why would a lotus flower
- hide in the forest?
- 376
- 00:29:18,340 --> 00:29:20,434
- And this is Richard Parker.
- 377
- 00:29:21,009 --> 00:29:22,807
- He is the most
- magnificent creature
- 378
- 00:29:22,886 --> 00:29:24,513
- we've ever had here.
- 379
- 00:29:25,347 --> 00:29:27,691
- Look at the way
- he's turning his head.
- 380
- 00:29:29,726 --> 00:29:32,900
- Showing off. Like a dancer.
- 381
- 00:29:33,063 --> 00:29:35,361
- No, he heard something.
- 382
- 00:29:37,359 --> 00:29:40,329
- He's listening, you see?
- 383
- 00:29:49,871 --> 00:29:51,873
- We have talked
- about it for some time.
- 384
- 00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:54,213
- Do you understand
- what I'm saying?
- 385
- 00:29:54,376 --> 00:29:55,719
- Pi?
- 386
- 00:29:56,962 --> 00:29:58,714
- Sorry, you've been...
- 387
- 00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:00,427
- Worried.
- 388
- 00:30:00,590 --> 00:30:02,388
- For my family.
- 389
- 00:30:02,551 --> 00:30:05,555
- Our animals are worth far more
- abroad than here in India.
- 390
- 00:30:05,721 --> 00:30:07,723
- And if the town council
- stops supporting us...
- 391
- 00:30:07,889 --> 00:30:09,732
- I don't know where we will be.
- 392
- 00:30:09,891 --> 00:30:12,269
- So, it is what we have to do.
- 393
- 00:30:13,228 --> 00:30:15,151
- Do you understand?
- 394
- 00:30:17,232 --> 00:30:19,234
- I'm sorry,
- what are we talking about?
- 395
- 00:30:19,818 --> 00:30:21,820
- We are leaving India.
- 396
- 00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:24,657
- What?
- 397
- 00:30:26,575 --> 00:30:28,248
- We are selling the zoo.
- 398
- 00:30:29,244 --> 00:30:32,123
- The zoo was never ours to sell.
- The land belongs to the town.
- 399
- 00:30:32,289 --> 00:30:34,417
- But the animals are ours
- and if we sell them...
- 400
- 00:30:34,583 --> 00:30:36,677
- we will have enough
- to start a new life.
- 401
- 00:30:36,835 --> 00:30:40,089
- But where would we go?
- Our life is here, Appa.
- 402
- 00:30:40,255 --> 00:30:41,256
- Canada.
- 403
- 00:30:41,423 --> 00:30:44,097
- I have some opportunities
- for work in Winnipeg.
- 404
- 00:30:44,259 --> 00:30:47,263
- I'll be shipping most of the
- animals for sale in North America.
- 405
- 00:30:47,429 --> 00:30:49,978
- We can get freighter passage
- for the whole family.
- 406
- 00:30:50,098 --> 00:30:51,600
- So...
- 407
- 00:30:51,767 --> 00:30:53,360
- It is settled.
- 408
- 00:30:53,518 --> 00:30:56,271
- We will sail like Columbus.
- 409
- 00:30:56,855 --> 00:30:59,529
- But Columbus
- was looking for India.
- 410
- 00:31:08,116 --> 00:31:10,869
- It takes
- a lot of work to sell a zoo.
- 411
- 00:31:11,620 --> 00:31:12,712
- Before we left...
- 412
- 00:31:12,788 --> 00:31:16,509
- Anandi and I had time enough
- to break each other's hearts.
- 413
- 00:31:16,958 --> 00:31:20,337
- Of course, I promised
- I would come back one day.
- 414
- 00:31:21,171 --> 00:31:22,673
- It's funny.
- 415
- 00:31:22,839 --> 00:31:25,968
- I remember everything else
- about our last day.
- 416
- 00:31:26,134 --> 00:31:29,229
- But I don't remember
- saying goodbye.
- 417
- 00:31:37,646 --> 00:31:41,196
- Pi? They're
- serving dinner below.
- 418
- 00:31:54,329 --> 00:31:56,002
- Piscine...
- 419
- 00:31:56,164 --> 00:31:58,667
- you have a whole life
- ahead of you.
- 420
- 00:31:59,418 --> 00:32:02,012
- We are doing this
- for you and Ravi.
- 421
- 00:32:04,256 --> 00:32:06,384
- Come inside
- and have some dinner.
- 422
- 00:32:15,892 --> 00:32:17,690
- Vegetarian, please.
- 423
- 00:32:19,020 --> 00:32:21,899
- Oh, my sons and I are vegetarians.
- Do you have anything...
- 424
- 00:32:22,065 --> 00:32:25,194
- No, no, no.
- Not more gravy.
- 425
- 00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:27,112
- You don't want gravy?
- No.
- 426
- 00:32:28,363 --> 00:32:30,240
- No, I want something
- vegetarian.
- 427
- 00:32:31,074 --> 00:32:32,576
- Oh.
- 428
- 00:32:34,494 --> 00:32:35,711
- Pas de problème.
- 429
- 00:32:37,539 --> 00:32:41,260
- She asked if you have
- something vegetarian.
- 430
- 00:32:43,712 --> 00:32:46,056
- The cow that produced
- this liver was vegetarian,
- 431
- 00:32:46,214 --> 00:32:49,138
- the pigs that went into
- these sausages were vegetarian.
- 432
- 00:32:49,217 --> 00:32:50,594
- Very funny.
- 433
- 00:32:51,219 --> 00:32:54,063
- But my wife doesn't eat liver.
- 434
- 00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:58,523
- Pas de problème.
- 435
- 00:32:58,894 --> 00:33:02,489
- Then she can eat the sausage,
- the rice, and the gravy.
- 436
- 00:33:02,981 --> 00:33:04,983
- Or you can cook your own food.
- 437
- 00:33:05,317 --> 00:33:07,820
- Haw dare you talk
- to my wife like that?
- 438
- 00:33:08,487 --> 00:33:10,285
- Here's your rice.
- 439
- 00:33:11,948 --> 00:33:14,076
- I cook for sailors...
- 440
- 00:33:14,159 --> 00:33:15,752
- not curry-eaters.
- 441
- 00:33:16,661 --> 00:33:17,412
- What did you say?
- 442
- 00:33:17,621 --> 00:33:18,463
- Let go of me!
- 443
- 00:33:18,538 --> 00:33:22,133
- Who do you think you are?
- You're nothing but a servant!
- 444
- 00:33:22,209 --> 00:33:24,758
- I feed people!
- You feed monkeys!
- 445
- 00:33:33,428 --> 00:33:34,930
- Hello.
- 446
- 00:33:35,096 --> 00:33:36,643
- I am happy Buddhist.
- 447
- 00:33:36,973 --> 00:33:38,600
- So, I eat rice
- 448
- 00:33:38,683 --> 00:33:40,606
- next to gravy.
- 449
- 00:33:40,936 --> 00:33:44,315
- On ship, gravy is not meat.
- 450
- 00:33:44,481 --> 00:33:45,653
- Is taste.
- 451
- 00:33:46,358 --> 00:33:47,701
- You try?
- 452
- 00:34:10,507 --> 00:34:12,384
- Don't worry.
- 453
- 00:34:12,551 --> 00:34:17,682
- We will have plenty of fresh
- supplies after we stop in Manila.
- 454
- 00:34:19,516 --> 00:34:23,146
- Why give Orange Juice
- tranquilizers?
- 455
- 00:34:23,311 --> 00:34:26,235
- She's not going to
- cause any trouble.
- 456
- 00:34:26,398 --> 00:34:29,368
- The stress of traveling
- is not good for the animals...
- 457
- 00:34:29,526 --> 00:34:32,325
- and it helps
- with the seasickness.
- 458
- 00:34:33,488 --> 00:34:39,666
- We don't want to be cleaning up
- after a seasick orangutan...
- 459
- 00:34:40,245 --> 00:34:41,497
- do we?
- 460
- 00:34:47,919 --> 00:34:50,047
- My father was a businessman.
- 461
- 00:34:50,130 --> 00:34:52,553
- He had never tended
- the animals himself.
- 462
- 00:34:54,384 --> 00:34:55,431
- I realized...
- 463
- 00:34:55,594 --> 00:34:59,565
- leaving India must have been
- harder for him than it was for me.
- 464
- 00:35:05,437 --> 00:35:06,780
- So...
- 465
- 00:35:07,230 --> 00:35:09,403
- Have I forgotten anything?
- 466
- 00:35:09,566 --> 00:35:10,726
- I think you've set the stage.
- 467
- 00:35:10,859 --> 00:35:14,238
- So far, we have an Indian boy named
- after a French swimming pool...
- 468
- 00:35:14,404 --> 00:35:17,704
- on a Japanese ship full of
- animals, heading to Canada.
- 469
- 00:35:17,866 --> 00:35:19,118
- Yes.
- 470
- 00:35:19,284 --> 00:35:23,039
- Now, we have to send our boy into
- the middle of the Pacific and...
- 471
- 00:35:23,204 --> 00:35:26,208
- And make me believe in God.
- 472
- 00:35:27,584 --> 00:35:29,086
- Yeah.
- 473
- 00:35:29,252 --> 00:35:31,129
- We'll get there.
- 474
- 00:35:36,468 --> 00:35:38,766
- It was four days
- out of Manila...
- 475
- 00:35:38,928 --> 00:35:42,057
- above the Mariana Trench,
- the deepest spot on Earth.
- 476
- 00:35:45,727 --> 00:35:48,697
- Our ship,
- The Tsimtsum, pushed on,
- 477
- 00:35:48,813 --> 00:35:51,817
- bullishly indifferent
- to its surroundings.
- 478
- 00:35:52,776 --> 00:35:57,156
- It moved with the slow, massive
- confidence of a continent.
- 479
- 00:36:33,608 --> 00:36:34,825
- Ravi?
- 480
- 00:36:35,610 --> 00:36:36,953
- Did you hear that, Ravi?
- 481
- 00:36:37,112 --> 00:36:38,329
- I'm sleeping.
- 482
- 00:36:38,488 --> 00:36:40,490
- It's a thunderstorm.
- Let's go watch.
- 483
- 00:36:40,657 --> 00:36:41,954
- Are you crazy?
- 484
- 00:36:42,367 --> 00:36:44,210
- We will get hit by lightning.
- 485
- 00:36:44,452 --> 00:36:47,296
- No, we won't. It will
- hit the bridge first.
- 486
- 00:36:48,790 --> 00:36:51,168
- Don't tempt a storm, Pi.
- 487
- 00:37:04,639 --> 00:37:05,936
- Whoa.
- 488
- 00:37:19,529 --> 00:37:20,655
- Oh!
- 489
- 00:37:55,106 --> 00:37:58,952
- More rain! More rain!
- 490
- 00:38:01,488 --> 00:38:03,957
- Lord of Storms!
- 491
- 00:38:04,240 --> 00:38:05,583
- Whoa!
- 492
- 00:38:06,451 --> 00:38:07,998
- Lightning!
- 493
- 00:38:26,054 --> 00:38:27,055
- Ah!
- 494
- 00:38:47,617 --> 00:38:49,085
- Amma!
- 495
- 00:38:50,411 --> 00:38:51,503
- Appa!
- 496
- 00:38:53,081 --> 00:38:56,802
- Ravi! Get out! Get out!
- 497
- 00:39:34,455 --> 00:39:36,423
- Help me!
- 498
- 00:39:41,629 --> 00:39:42,972
- Help!
- 499
- 00:39:45,174 --> 00:39:46,471
- Get in the boat!
- 500
- 00:39:46,634 --> 00:39:48,636
- Please! Save my family!
- 501
- 00:39:48,803 --> 00:39:50,601
- Don't scare, okay?
- Wait, stay here!
- 502
- 00:39:50,763 --> 00:39:52,356
- You have to help them!
- Please!
- 503
- 00:39:52,515 --> 00:39:53,812
- Put this on.
- 504
- 00:39:53,975 --> 00:39:56,398
- No, no, my family!
- Please!
- 505
- 00:39:58,730 --> 00:40:00,152
- We have to help them!
- 506
- 00:40:00,315 --> 00:40:02,613
- We don't have time.
- My family's back there!
- 507
- 00:40:02,775 --> 00:40:05,028
- We help!
- You must go!
- 508
- 00:40:05,194 --> 00:40:06,366
- Who let all the animals out?
- 509
- 00:40:06,529 --> 00:40:07,781
- You have to go now!
- 510
- 00:40:07,947 --> 00:40:10,245
- No, wait, my father!
- He can't swim!
- 511
- 00:40:10,325 --> 00:40:11,372
- Go!
- 512
- 00:40:14,287 --> 00:40:17,257
- Hang on to the boat!
- Hold, hold!
- 513
- 00:40:18,499 --> 00:40:20,092
- Bring it down!
- 514
- 00:40:28,009 --> 00:40:31,013
- Hey! You!
- What are you doing?
- 515
- 00:40:32,639 --> 00:40:33,686
- Jump!
- 516
- 00:40:34,057 --> 00:40:36,059
- Hey, hey!
- 517
- 00:41:39,038 --> 00:41:43,464
- Hey! Over here!
- Over here!
- 518
- 00:42:18,119 --> 00:42:19,837
- Richard Parker?
- 519
- 00:42:19,996 --> 00:42:21,669
- No! No!
- 520
- 00:42:22,582 --> 00:42:25,756
- No! Go away! Go away!
- 521
- 00:44:14,735 --> 00:44:16,237
- Agh!
- 522
- 00:44:34,839 --> 00:44:37,718
- Amma!
- 523
- 00:44:37,884 --> 00:44:41,855
- Appa! Ravi.
- 524
- 00:44:43,389 --> 00:44:46,233
- I'm sorry.
- 525
- 00:44:48,436 --> 00:44:51,861
- I'm sorry!
- 526
- 00:46:35,209 --> 00:46:36,301
- Hari?
- 527
- 00:47:11,787 --> 00:47:14,836
- Looks as though your drugs
- haven't worn off yet.
- 528
- 00:47:29,138 --> 00:47:33,860
- Orange Juice!
- Orange Juice!
- 529
- 00:47:47,239 --> 00:47:49,367
- Welcome to Pi's Ark.
- 530
- 00:48:14,266 --> 00:48:16,485
- Where is your boy,
- Orange Juice?
- 531
- 00:48:26,529 --> 00:48:30,909
- Don't worry, I bet mother
- and father found him.
- 532
- 00:48:34,328 --> 00:48:36,877
- They'll all be here soon.
- 533
- 00:48:44,755 --> 00:48:47,224
- Hello!
- 534
- 00:48:50,344 --> 00:48:53,018
- Hello!
- 535
- 00:48:55,057 --> 00:48:58,106
- Anybody!
- 536
- 00:50:01,332 --> 00:50:02,584
- No!
- 537
- 00:50:02,958 --> 00:50:07,964
- Stop it! No!
- Stop it! Stop it!
- 538
- 00:50:10,966 --> 00:50:11,466
- No! No!
- 539
- 00:51:01,016 --> 00:51:02,563
- I'm sorry, Orange Juice.
- 540
- 00:51:02,726 --> 00:51:05,900
- I don't have any seasickness
- medicine for you.
- 541
- 00:51:07,022 --> 00:51:10,117
- Supplies.
- Oh, supplies!
- 542
- 00:52:17,551 --> 00:52:20,100
- Yes! Yes!
- 543
- 00:52:30,064 --> 00:52:31,737
- No! No!
- 544
- 00:52:32,900 --> 00:52:34,573
- No! No!
- 545
- 00:52:54,755 --> 00:52:57,133
- Come on! Come on!
- 546
- 00:52:57,591 --> 00:52:59,013
- Come on!
- 547
- 00:54:46,450 --> 00:54:47,451
- Mmm.
- 548
- 00:57:41,792 --> 00:57:44,215
- My name is Pi Patel.
- 549
- 00:57:44,711 --> 00:57:47,214
- I have been in a shipwreck.
- 550
- 00:57:47,881 --> 00:57:50,555
- I am on a lifeboat alone...
- 551
- 00:57:52,803 --> 00:57:54,055
- with a tiger.
- 552
- 00:57:56,056 --> 00:57:58,058
- Please send help.
- 553
- 00:59:45,540 --> 00:59:49,886
- God, I give myself to you.
- 554
- 00:59:50,420 --> 00:59:52,923
- I am your vessel.
- 555
- 00:59:54,674 --> 00:59:58,554
- Whatever comes, I want to know.
- 556
- 01:00:00,514 --> 01:00:02,357
- Show me.
- 557
- 01:00:11,858 --> 01:00:14,737
- There are no lines.
- 558
- 01:00:18,782 --> 01:00:23,037
- Set your house in order and
- dig in for the battle to survive.
- 559
- 01:00:23,370 --> 01:00:25,839
- Establish a strict
- schedule for eating,
- 560
- 01:00:25,956 --> 01:00:28,379
- keeping watch and getting rest.
- 561
- 01:00:29,042 --> 01:00:32,296
- Do not drink
- urine or sea water.
- 562
- 01:00:34,214 --> 01:00:38,390
- Keep busy but avoid
- unnecessary exertion.
- 563
- 01:00:41,054 --> 01:00:43,728
- The mind can be kept occupied
- by playing card games...
- 564
- 01:00:44,224 --> 01:00:47,228
- Twenty Questions, or! Spy.
- 565
- 01:00:49,896 --> 01:00:54,072
- Community singing is another
- surefire way to lift the spirits.
- 566
- 01:00:56,778 --> 01:00:59,827
- Telling stories
- is highly recommended.
- 567
- 01:01:03,910 --> 01:01:06,959
- Above all, don't lose hope.
- 568
- 01:01:15,755 --> 01:01:19,180
- Few things can sap the spirit
- faster than seasickness.
- 569
- 01:01:20,594 --> 01:01:25,191
- Waves are most strongly felt when a
- boat turns sideways to the current.
- 570
- 01:01:25,348 --> 01:01:29,979
- A sea anchor is used as a drag to
- keep the boat's head to the wind.
- 571
- 01:01:30,145 --> 01:01:32,819
- Proper use of them
- can increase control
- 572
- 01:01:32,939 --> 01:01:35,613
- and reduce seasickness
- during rough seas.
- 573
- 01:01:36,943 --> 01:01:39,742
- For castaways who must share
- their lifeboats with large,
- 574
- 01:01:39,821 --> 01:01:41,198
- dangerous carnivores...
- 575
- 01:01:41,281 --> 01:01:44,660
- it's advisable to establish
- a territory as your own.
- 576
- 01:01:44,826 --> 01:01:46,328
- Try this method.
- 577
- 01:01:46,494 --> 01:01:47,586
- Step one.
- 578
- 01:01:47,662 --> 01:01:50,791
- Choose a day when waves are
- moderate, but regular.
- 579
- 01:01:51,041 --> 01:01:54,170
- Step two. With the lifeboat
- facing into the waves...
- 580
- 01:01:54,294 --> 01:01:58,800
- making the ride as comfortable as
- possible, blow your whistle soothingly.
- 581
- 01:01:59,132 --> 01:02:02,511
- Step three. Turn the lifeboat
- sideways to the waves...
- 582
- 01:02:02,636 --> 01:02:05,856
- accompanied by harsh,
- aggressive use of the whistle.
- 583
- 01:02:06,014 --> 01:02:07,641
- With sufficient repetition...
- 584
- 01:02:07,807 --> 01:02:09,935
- the animal will associate
- the sound of the whistle...
- 585
- 01:02:10,018 --> 01:02:12,567
- with the discomfort
- of seasickness.
- 586
- 01:02:13,230 --> 01:02:16,404
- Similar methods have long been
- used by circus trainers...
- 587
- 01:02:16,566 --> 01:02:19,661
- though they generally lack
- access to rough seas.
- 588
- 01:02:20,028 --> 01:02:22,827
- Let the trumpets blare!
- 589
- 01:02:22,989 --> 01:02:26,744
- Let the drum rolls begin!
- 590
- 01:02:27,327 --> 01:02:30,171
- Prepare to be amazed!
- 591
- 01:02:30,330 --> 01:02:34,551
- Here it is, for your
- enjoyment and instruction!
- 592
- 01:02:35,168 --> 01:02:39,514
- The show you've been waiting
- for all your life...
- 593
- 01:02:39,673 --> 01:02:42,643
- will soon begin!
- 594
- 01:02:44,219 --> 01:02:46,267
- Are you ready for
- the miracle of it?
- 595
- 01:02:47,430 --> 01:02:50,434
- Well, then, I give to you...
- 596
- 01:02:50,600 --> 01:02:55,026
- the astounding Bengal tiger!
- 597
- 01:03:05,532 --> 01:03:10,379
- Hello, Richard Parker.
- Sorry about the choppy ride.
- 598
- 01:03:44,404 --> 01:03:49,285
- Mine! You understand?
- Yours, mine!
- 599
- 01:03:52,454 --> 01:03:54,422
- You understand?
- 600
- 01:04:02,047 --> 01:04:03,424
- Ew!
- 601
- 01:04:06,593 --> 01:04:08,095
- Step four.
- 602
- 01:04:08,261 --> 01:04:11,856
- Disregard steps
- one through three.
- 603
- 01:04:39,542 --> 01:04:43,968
- Here, Richard Parker.
- I got some water for you.
- 604
- 01:04:57,811 --> 01:05:02,317
- In the zoo, we fed our tigers an
- average of five kilos of meat a day.
- 605
- 01:05:02,899 --> 01:05:06,028
- Richard Parker
- will be getting hungry soon.
- 606
- 01:05:08,071 --> 01:05:11,575
- Tigers are powerful swimmers,
- and if he gets hungry enough...
- 607
- 01:05:11,658 --> 01:05:13,752
- I'm afraid the little
- bit of water between us
- 608
- 01:05:13,827 --> 01:05:15,875
- won't be any protection.
- 609
- 01:05:16,037 --> 01:05:18,540
- I need to find a way
- to feed him.
- 610
- 01:05:18,706 --> 01:05:22,256
- I can eat the biscuits but God
- made tigers carnivores...
- 611
- 01:05:22,335 --> 01:05:24,508
- so I must learn to catch fish.
- 612
- 01:05:24,671 --> 01:05:27,390
- If I don't,
- I'm afraid his last meal
- 613
- 01:05:27,465 --> 01:05:29,684
- will be a skinny,
- vegetarian boy.
- 614
- 01:05:39,519 --> 01:05:41,567
- Patience!
- 615
- 01:07:47,981 --> 01:07:49,654
- What am I doing?
- 616
- 01:08:07,542 --> 01:08:10,216
- Wait! I'm thinking.
- 617
- 01:09:40,134 --> 01:09:42,808
- Thirty-two cartons
- of biscuits.
- 618
- 01:09:44,764 --> 01:09:47,608
- Ninety-three cans of water.
- 619
- 01:10:59,547 --> 01:11:01,345
- I'm sorry.
- 620
- 01:11:03,926 --> 01:11:05,678
- I'm sorry.
- 621
- 01:11:07,722 --> 01:11:10,601
- Thank you, Lord Vishnu.
- 622
- 01:11:10,767 --> 01:11:14,897
- Thank you for coming in the form
- of a fish and saving our lives.
- 623
- 01:11:15,897 --> 01:11:17,695
- Thank you.
- 624
- 01:13:26,027 --> 01:13:28,405
- Of course, I brought all
- the biscuits and water
- 625
- 01:13:28,487 --> 01:13:31,081
- on the raft with me
- to keep them safe.
- 626
- 01:13:32,074 --> 01:13:33,496
- Idiot.
- 627
- 01:13:36,162 --> 01:13:38,256
- Hunger can
- change everything you
- 628
- 01:13:38,331 --> 01:13:40,584
- ever thought you
- knew about yourself.
- 629
- 01:14:30,591 --> 01:14:32,764
- Here, it's yours!
- 630
- 01:14:46,691 --> 01:14:48,318
- Oh! Ah!
- 631
- 01:15:41,704 --> 01:15:43,172
- Mine! Mine!
- 632
- 01:16:48,687 --> 01:16:50,815
- I can't risk my life every time
- 633
- 01:16:50,898 --> 01:16:53,697
- I have to climb
- onto the boat for supplies.
- 634
- 01:16:53,859 --> 01:16:56,032
- It's time to settle this.
- 635
- 01:16:56,278 --> 01:16:58,076
- If we're going
- to live together,
- 636
- 01:16:58,155 --> 01:17:00,704
- we have to learn
- to communicate.
- 637
- 01:17:00,866 --> 01:17:03,494
- Maybe Richard Parker
- can't be tamed,
- 638
- 01:17:03,577 --> 01:17:06,376
- but with God's will,
- he can be trained.
- 639
- 01:18:16,317 --> 01:18:17,364
- No!
- 640
- 01:18:25,993 --> 01:18:27,791
- Good.
- 641
- 01:19:46,699 --> 01:19:49,953
- Go, Richard Parker. Go.
- 642
- 01:19:50,244 --> 01:19:52,918
- Go on home,
- I'll leave you alone.
- 643
- 01:19:53,080 --> 01:19:56,050
- I'll respect that, I promise.
- 644
- 01:20:00,212 --> 01:20:02,715
- Go. Come on.
- 645
- 01:20:10,764 --> 01:20:12,391
- Yes!
- 646
- 01:20:46,925 --> 01:20:49,019
- I never thought
- a small piece of shade
- 647
- 01:20:49,094 --> 01:20:51,813
- could bring me
- so much happiness.
- 648
- 01:20:52,348 --> 01:20:57,275
- That a pile of tools,
- a bucket, a knife, a pencil...
- 649
- 01:20:57,436 --> 01:20:59,484
- might become my
- greatest treasures.
- 650
- 01:20:59,813 --> 01:21:03,784
- Or that knowing Richard Parker was
- here might ever bring me peace.
- 651
- 01:21:04,818 --> 01:21:06,286
- In times like these...
- 652
- 01:21:06,445 --> 01:21:08,698
- I remember that he has
- as little experience
- 653
- 01:21:08,781 --> 01:21:11,330
- with the real world as I do.
- 654
- 01:21:11,492 --> 01:21:14,837
- We were both raised in a zoo
- by the same master.
- 655
- 01:21:14,995 --> 01:21:19,967
- Now we've been orphaned, left to
- face our ultimate master together.
- 656
- 01:21:20,125 --> 01:21:23,675
- Without Richard Parker,
- I would have died by now.
- 657
- 01:21:23,837 --> 01:21:26,181
- My fear of him keeps me alert.
- 658
- 01:21:26,340 --> 01:21:29,640
- Tending to his needs
- gives my life purpose.
- 659
- 01:21:34,640 --> 01:21:36,062
- Dolphins.
- 660
- 01:21:36,225 --> 01:21:38,353
- Hey, Richard Parker!
- 661
- 01:21:55,661 --> 01:21:57,413
- Hey!
- 662
- 01:22:49,465 --> 01:22:53,720
- Above all, don't lose hope.
- 663
- 01:23:25,584 --> 01:23:29,634
- Eight, five, five,
- zero, three, six, six...
- 664
- 01:23:29,755 --> 01:23:32,304
- zero, eight, zero, one...
- 665
- 01:23:32,466 --> 01:23:37,267
- three, six, zero, four,
- six, six, eight...
- 666
- 01:23:45,103 --> 01:23:47,481
- What are you looking at?
- 667
- 01:23:52,277 --> 01:23:54,029
- Talk to me.
- 668
- 01:23:57,658 --> 01:23:59,877
- Tell me what you see.
- 669
- 01:26:06,745 --> 01:26:10,090
- Words are all I have
- left to hang on to.
- 670
- 01:26:10,666 --> 01:26:14,011
- Everything mixed up.
- Fragmented.
- 671
- 01:26:14,586 --> 01:26:19,763
- Can't tell daydreams, night
- dreams, from reality anymo...
- 672
- 01:26:37,943 --> 01:26:39,945
- Storm, Richard Parker.
- 673
- 01:27:07,472 --> 01:27:08,815
- No!
- 674
- 01:27:14,187 --> 01:27:15,564
- No!
- 675
- 01:27:40,213 --> 01:27:42,386
- Praise be to God!
- 676
- 01:27:43,091 --> 01:27:45,059
- Lord of all worlds!
- 677
- 01:27:45,218 --> 01:27:48,848
- The compassionate,
- the merciful!
- 678
- 01:27:48,930 --> 01:27:50,227
- Ah!
- 679
- 01:27:55,187 --> 01:27:57,189
- Come out.
- 680
- 01:27:58,190 --> 01:28:02,866
- Richard Parker! Come out,
- you have to see this!
- 681
- 01:28:03,862 --> 01:28:05,864
- It's beautiful!
- 682
- 01:28:16,875 --> 01:28:21,051
- Don't hide yourself!
- He's come to us!
- 683
- 01:28:21,213 --> 01:28:22,886
- It's a miracle!
- 684
- 01:28:36,478 --> 01:28:40,073
- Come out and see God,
- Richard Parker!
- 685
- 01:28:52,828 --> 01:28:56,082
- Why are you scaring him?
- 686
- 01:28:56,248 --> 01:28:57,249
- Oh, God!
- 687
- 01:28:57,415 --> 01:29:02,091
- I've lost my family!
- I've lost everything!
- 688
- 01:29:02,254 --> 01:29:06,680
- I surrender!
- What more do you want?
- 689
- 01:29:29,990 --> 01:29:32,334
- I'm sorry, Richard Parker.
- 690
- 01:32:40,055 --> 01:32:42,934
- We're dying, Richard Parker.
- 691
- 01:32:46,644 --> 01:32:49,147
- I'm sorry.
- 692
- 01:33:21,179 --> 01:33:25,855
- Amma, Appa, Ravi...
- 693
- 01:33:27,769 --> 01:33:31,194
- I'm happy I'm going
- to see you soon.
- 694
- 01:33:39,364 --> 01:33:42,994
- Can you feel the rain?
- 695
- 01:34:01,511 --> 01:34:06,392
- God, thank you for
- giving me my life.
- 696
- 01:34:08,560 --> 01:34:10,562
- I'm ready now.
- 697
- 01:34:41,676 --> 01:34:43,770
- Richard Parker?
- 698
- 01:35:32,018 --> 01:35:33,691
- Mmm.
- 699
- 01:36:22,026 --> 01:36:24,199
- Excuse me.
- 700
- 01:36:24,946 --> 01:36:26,664
- Move.
- 701
- 01:36:27,365 --> 01:36:29,868
- Move. Excuse me.
- 702
- 01:38:42,125 --> 01:38:44,469
- Hey! Hey!
- 703
- 01:38:45,336 --> 01:38:46,838
- Hey, come on!
- 704
- 01:38:49,340 --> 01:38:50,842
- Hey.
- 705
- 01:38:51,843 --> 01:38:55,268
- Hey, get away.
- This is my bed.
- 706
- 01:41:03,474 --> 01:41:05,897
- It was a human tooth?
- 707
- 01:41:06,060 --> 01:41:09,155
- Don't you see? The
- island was carnivorous.
- 708
- 01:41:09,313 --> 01:41:12,157
- Carnivorous?
- Like a Venus Flytrap?
- 709
- 01:41:12,316 --> 01:41:15,160
- Yes, the whole island.
- 710
- 01:41:15,319 --> 01:41:19,790
- The plants, the water in those
- pools, the very ground itself.
- 711
- 01:41:20,491 --> 01:41:23,461
- During the day, those
- pools held fresh water.
- 712
- 01:41:23,619 --> 01:41:25,747
- But at night,
- some chemical process
- 713
- 01:41:25,830 --> 01:41:28,834
- turned the water
- in those pools into acid...
- 714
- 01:41:29,792 --> 01:41:32,011
- acid that dissolved
- those fish...
- 715
- 01:41:32,169 --> 01:41:34,672
- that sent the meerkats
- scurrying into the trees,
- 716
- 01:41:34,755 --> 01:41:36,974
- and Richard Parker
- running to the boat.
- 717
- 01:41:37,133 --> 01:41:39,135
- But where did
- the tooth come from?
- 718
- 01:41:39,302 --> 01:41:42,101
- Years ago, some poor fellow,
- just like me...
- 719
- 01:41:42,263 --> 01:41:45,016
- must have found himself
- stranded on that island...
- 720
- 01:41:45,182 --> 01:41:48,527
- and, like me, thought he
- might stay there forever.
- 721
- 01:41:48,686 --> 01:41:53,533
- But all that the island gave him by
- day, it took away again by night.
- 722
- 01:41:55,026 --> 01:42:00,203
- To think, how many hours spent
- with only meerkats for company.
- 723
- 01:42:00,364 --> 01:42:02,787
- How much loneliness taken on.
- 724
- 01:42:03,159 --> 01:42:05,378
- All I know is that
- eventually he died
- 725
- 01:42:05,453 --> 01:42:07,455
- and the island digested him...
- 726
- 01:42:07,622 --> 01:42:10,375
- leaving behind only his teeth.
- 727
- 01:42:11,709 --> 01:42:15,179
- I saw how my life would end
- if I stayed on that island.
- 728
- 01:42:15,338 --> 01:42:17,056
- Alone and forgotten.
- 729
- 01:42:17,882 --> 01:42:22,558
- I had to get back to the
- world, or die trying.
- 730
- 01:42:26,390 --> 01:42:29,189
- I spent the next day
- preparing the boat.
- 731
- 01:42:29,352 --> 01:42:31,400
- I filled my stores
- with fresh water...
- 732
- 01:42:31,646 --> 01:42:34,240
- ate seaweed until my stomach
- could take no more...
- 733
- 01:42:34,398 --> 01:42:36,742
- and brought as many
- meerkats as I could fit
- 734
- 01:42:36,817 --> 01:42:39,912
- into the storage locker
- for Richard Parker.
- 735
- 01:42:41,072 --> 01:42:43,166
- I couldn't leave
- without him, of course.
- 736
- 01:42:43,324 --> 01:42:45,167
- It would mean killing him.
- 737
- 01:42:46,911 --> 01:42:49,881
- And so,
- I waited for his return.
- 738
- 01:42:51,999 --> 01:42:53,922
- I knew he wouldn't be late.
- 739
- 01:42:54,085 --> 01:42:57,589
- Richard Parker!
- 740
- 01:43:09,934 --> 01:43:12,437
- No one has seen that
- floating island since.
- 741
- 01:43:12,603 --> 01:43:15,903
- And you won't read about those
- trees in any nature book.
- 742
- 01:43:16,065 --> 01:43:20,115
- And yet, if I hadn't found those
- shores, I would have died.
- 743
- 01:43:20,277 --> 01:43:22,621
- If I hadn't
- discovered that tooth,
- 744
- 01:43:22,697 --> 01:43:25,792
- I would have been lost,
- alone forever.
- 745
- 01:43:25,950 --> 01:43:28,453
- Even when God seemed
- to have abandoned me...
- 746
- 01:43:28,619 --> 01:43:30,121
- He was watching.
- 747
- 01:43:30,287 --> 01:43:33,086
- Even when He seemed indifferent
- to my suffering...
- 748
- 01:43:33,249 --> 01:43:34,717
- He was watching.
- 749
- 01:43:34,875 --> 01:43:38,721
- And when I was beyond all hope
- of saving, He gave me rest...
- 750
- 01:43:38,879 --> 01:43:41,974
- then gave me a sign
- to continue my journey.
- 751
- 01:43:54,812 --> 01:43:57,361
- By the time we reached
- the Mexican shore,
- 752
- 01:43:57,440 --> 01:44:00,239
- I was afraid to
- let go of the boat.
- 753
- 01:44:00,776 --> 01:44:04,155
- My strength was gone.
- I was so weak.
- 754
- 01:44:04,321 --> 01:44:08,121
- I was afraid that in two feet of
- water, so close to deliverance...
- 755
- 01:44:08,284 --> 01:44:10,332
- I would drown.
- 756
- 01:44:19,587 --> 01:44:23,592
- I struggled to shore
- and fell upon the sand.
- 757
- 01:44:23,758 --> 01:44:25,510
- It was warm and soft...
- 758
- 01:44:25,676 --> 01:44:28,976
- like pressing my face
- against the cheek of God.
- 759
- 01:44:29,847 --> 01:44:34,353
- And somewhere, two eyes were
- smiling at having me there.
- 760
- 01:44:38,355 --> 01:44:42,110
- I was so spent,
- I could hardly move.
- 761
- 01:44:48,115 --> 01:44:51,289
- And so, Richard Parker
- went ahead of me.
- 762
- 01:44:52,661 --> 01:44:56,711
- He stretched his legs
- and walked along the shore.
- 763
- 01:45:00,461 --> 01:45:03,715
- At the edge of the jungle,
- he stopped.
- 764
- 01:45:03,881 --> 01:45:06,350
- I was certain he was going
- to look back at me...
- 765
- 01:45:06,634 --> 01:45:09,729
- flatten his ears
- to his head, growl.
- 766
- 01:45:09,887 --> 01:45:13,983
- That he would bring our
- relationship to an end in some way.
- 767
- 01:45:15,893 --> 01:45:19,067
- But he just stared ahead
- into the jungle.
- 768
- 01:45:22,650 --> 01:45:25,244
- And then, Richard Parker,
- my fierce companion...
- 769
- 01:45:25,402 --> 01:45:28,076
- the terrible one
- who kept me alive...
- 770
- 01:45:30,866 --> 01:45:34,496
- disappeared
- forever from my life.
- 771
- 01:45:40,501 --> 01:45:44,005
- After a few hours, a member
- of my own species found me.
- 772
- 01:45:44,505 --> 01:45:47,600
- He left and returned with a
- group who carried me away.
- 773
- 01:45:49,760 --> 01:45:52,058
- I wept like a child.
- 774
- 01:45:52,221 --> 01:45:56,567
- Not because I was overwhelmed at
- having survived, although I was.
- 775
- 01:45:57,434 --> 01:46:03,612
- I was weeping because Richard
- Parker left me so unceremoniously.
- 776
- 01:46:05,067 --> 01:46:07,616
- It broke my heart.
- 777
- 01:46:13,075 --> 01:46:15,954
- You know, my father was right.
- 778
- 01:46:16,120 --> 01:46:18,873
- Richard Parker never
- saw me as his friend.
- 779
- 01:46:19,456 --> 01:46:23,381
- After all we had been through,
- he didn't even look back.
- 780
- 01:46:24,545 --> 01:46:26,545
- But I have to believe there
- was more in his eyes...
- 781
- 01:46:26,589 --> 01:46:29,593
- than my own reflection
- staring back at me.
- 782
- 01:46:29,758 --> 01:46:32,056
- I know it.
- I felt it.
- 783
- 01:46:32,928 --> 01:46:35,147
- Even if I can't prove it.
- 784
- 01:46:40,436 --> 01:46:41,938
- You know,
- I've left so much behind.
- 785
- 01:46:42,104 --> 01:46:45,483
- My family, the zoo,
- India, Anandi.
- 786
- 01:46:45,816 --> 01:46:49,912
- I suppose, in the end, the whole of
- life becomes an act of letting go.
- 787
- 01:46:50,654 --> 01:46:53,498
- But what always
- hurts the most...
- 788
- 01:46:53,657 --> 01:46:57,287
- is not taking a moment
- to say goodbye.
- 789
- 01:46:58,996 --> 01:47:03,172
- I was never able to thank my
- father for all I learned from him.
- 790
- 01:47:03,334 --> 01:47:06,338
- To tell him,
- without his lessons...
- 791
- 01:47:06,921 --> 01:47:09,174
- I would never have survived.
- 792
- 01:47:11,300 --> 01:47:14,975
- I know Richard Parker is a
- tiger, but I wish I had said...
- 793
- 01:47:15,137 --> 01:47:17,811
- "It's over.
- We survived."
- 794
- 01:47:17,973 --> 01:47:21,773
- "Thank you for saving my life.
- I love you, Richard Parker."
- 795
- 01:47:21,936 --> 01:47:24,655
- "You will always
- be with me."
- 796
- 01:47:26,190 --> 01:47:28,534
- "May God be with you."
- 797
- 01:47:35,699 --> 01:47:38,043
- I don't know what to say.
- 798
- 01:47:44,375 --> 01:47:46,969
- It's hard to believe, isn't it?
- 799
- 01:47:49,964 --> 01:47:52,183
- It is a lot to take in.
- 800
- 01:47:52,549 --> 01:47:55,302
- To figure out
- what it all means.
- 801
- 01:47:55,469 --> 01:47:56,641
- If it happened, it happened.
- 802
- 01:47:56,720 --> 01:47:59,314
- Why should it have
- to mean anything?
- 803
- 01:48:00,849 --> 01:48:03,819
- Some of it is
- pretty incredible.
- 804
- 01:48:03,978 --> 01:48:06,322
- See, I was the only one
- who survived the shipwreck.
- 805
- 01:48:06,897 --> 01:48:10,071
- So the Japanese shipping company
- sent two men to talk to me...
- 806
- 01:48:10,234 --> 01:48:13,078
- in the Mexican hospital
- where I was recovering.
- 807
- 01:48:15,155 --> 01:48:17,078
- I still have a copy
- of their report.
- 808
- 01:48:19,243 --> 01:48:22,338
- They had insurance claims
- to settle...
- 809
- 01:48:22,496 --> 01:48:25,420
- and they wanted to find out
- why the ship sank.
- 810
- 01:48:26,417 --> 01:48:27,885
- They didn't believe me, either.
- 811
- 01:48:31,171 --> 01:48:34,846
- Thousands of meerkats on a
- floating carnivorous island...
- 812
- 01:48:35,009 --> 01:48:36,932
- and no one has ever seen it?
- 813
- 01:48:37,094 --> 01:48:39,893
- Yes, just like I told you.
- 814
- 01:48:40,055 --> 01:48:41,773
- Bananas don't float.
- 815
- 01:48:41,932 --> 01:48:43,434
- Why are you
- talking about bananas?
- 816
- 01:48:43,600 --> 01:48:46,274
- You said the orangutan floated
- to you on a bundle of bananas.
- 817
- 01:48:46,437 --> 01:48:48,280
- But bananas don't float.
- 818
- 01:48:48,439 --> 01:48:49,782
- Are you sure about that?
- 819
- 01:48:49,940 --> 01:48:52,443
- Of course they do.
- Try it for yourself.
- 820
- 01:48:53,402 --> 01:48:57,578
- In any case, we are not here to
- talk about bananas or meerkats.
- 821
- 01:48:57,740 --> 01:49:01,085
- Look, I’ve just told you along
- story and I'm very tired.
- 822
- 01:49:01,243 --> 01:49:06,124
- We are here because a Japanese
- cargo ship sank in the Pacific.
- 823
- 01:49:06,290 --> 01:49:08,759
- Something I never forget.
- 824
- 01:49:09,918 --> 01:49:12,387
- I lost my whole family.
- 825
- 01:49:17,134 --> 01:49:18,807
- Get him some water.
- 826
- 01:49:21,263 --> 01:49:23,482
- We don't mean to push you.
- 827
- 01:49:24,558 --> 01:49:27,437
- And you have our
- deepest sympathies.
- 828
- 01:49:27,603 --> 01:49:29,605
- But we have come a long way...
- 829
- 01:49:29,772 --> 01:49:32,946
- and we are no closer to
- understanding why the ship sank.
- 830
- 01:49:33,108 --> 01:49:35,236
- Because I don't know.
- 831
- 01:49:35,402 --> 01:49:36,949
- I was asleep.
- Something woke me up.
- 832
- 01:49:37,112 --> 01:49:39,661
- It could have been an
- explosion, I can't be sure.
- 833
- 01:49:39,823 --> 01:49:41,746
- And then the ship sank.
- 834
- 01:49:42,284 --> 01:49:43,957
- What else do you want from me?
- 835
- 01:49:44,119 --> 01:49:46,417
- A story that won't make us
- look like fools.
- 836
- 01:49:46,580 --> 01:49:49,584
- We need a simpler story
- for our report.
- 837
- 01:49:49,750 --> 01:49:51,923
- One our company can understand.
- 838
- 01:49:52,169 --> 01:49:54,672
- A story we can all believe.
- 839
- 01:49:57,508 --> 01:50:00,512
- So, a story without things
- you've never seen before.
- 840
- 01:50:01,011 --> 01:50:02,354
- That's right.
- 841
- 01:50:02,513 --> 01:50:06,689
- Without surprises. Without
- animals or islands.
- 842
- 01:50:06,850 --> 01:50:09,524
- Yes. The truth.
- 843
- 01:50:18,070 --> 01:50:20,869
- So, what did you do?
- 844
- 01:50:25,035 --> 01:50:27,379
- I told them another story.
- 845
- 01:50:28,205 --> 01:50:29,377
- Four of us survived.
- 846
- 01:50:30,249 --> 01:50:32,798
- The cook and the sailor
- were already aboard.
- 847
- 01:50:33,085 --> 01:50:34,928
- The cook threw me a lifebuoy
- and pulled me aboard...
- 848
- 01:50:35,087 --> 01:50:38,637
- and Mother held on to some bananas
- and made it to the lifeboat.
- 849
- 01:50:40,217 --> 01:50:43,221
- The cook was a disgusting man.
- 850
- 01:50:43,387 --> 01:50:45,606
- He ate a rat.
- 851
- 01:50:45,764 --> 01:50:48,893
- We had food enough for weeks, but he
- found the rat in the first few days...
- 852
- 01:50:49,059 --> 01:50:52,734
- and he killed it, dried
- it in the sun and ate it.
- 853
- 01:50:52,896 --> 01:50:55,115
- He was such a brute, that man.
- 854
- 01:50:56,900 --> 01:50:59,244
- But he was resourceful.
- 855
- 01:50:59,945 --> 01:51:03,575
- It was his idea to build
- the raft to catch fish.
- 856
- 01:51:03,740 --> 01:51:06,960
- We would have died in those
- first few days without him.
- 857
- 01:51:09,246 --> 01:51:13,752
- The sailor was the same man who
- brought rice and gravy, the Buddhist.
- 858
- 01:51:13,917 --> 01:51:17,296
- We didn't understand much of what he
- said, only that he was suffering.
- 859
- 01:51:17,754 --> 01:51:19,927
- He had broken his leg
- horribly in the fall.
- 860
- 01:51:20,090 --> 01:51:23,185
- We tried to set it as best we could,
- but the leg became infected...
- 861
- 01:51:23,594 --> 01:51:28,100
- and the cook said that we had
- to do something or he'd die.
- 862
- 01:51:28,599 --> 01:51:29,646
- The cook said he'd do it,
- 863
- 01:51:29,766 --> 01:51:32,110
- but Mother and I had
- to hold the man down.
- 864
- 01:51:32,186 --> 01:51:34,780
- And I believed him,
- we needed to do it.
- 865
- 01:51:35,439 --> 01:51:37,282
- So...
- 866
- 01:51:38,942 --> 01:51:42,037
- I kept saying,
- "I'm sorry, I'm sorry."
- 867
- 01:51:42,196 --> 01:51:46,042
- And he just kept looking at me.
- His eyes were so...
- 868
- 01:51:49,203 --> 01:51:52,673
- I'll never understand the point
- of that man's suffering.
- 869
- 01:51:53,832 --> 01:51:56,051
- I can still hear him.
- 870
- 01:51:56,793 --> 01:52:00,468
- The happy Buddhist,
- he only ate rice and gravy.
- 871
- 01:52:05,677 --> 01:52:07,725
- We didn't save him, of course.
- 872
- 01:52:07,888 --> 01:52:09,310
- He died.
- 873
- 01:52:10,390 --> 01:52:12,510
- The morning after, the cook
- caught his first dorado...
- 874
- 01:52:12,643 --> 01:52:15,692
- and I didn't understand what he had
- done at first, but Mother did...
- 875
- 01:52:15,854 --> 01:52:18,824
- and I had never seen
- Mother so angry.
- 876
- 01:52:19,650 --> 01:52:21,573
- "Stop whining and
- be happy," he said.
- 877
- 01:52:21,735 --> 01:52:24,579
- "We need more food or we'll die.
- That was the whole point."
- 878
- 01:52:24,738 --> 01:52:26,661
- "What was the whole point?"
- Mother asked.
- 879
- 01:52:26,823 --> 01:52:30,919
- "You let that poor boy die in
- order to get bait, you monster!"
- 880
- 01:52:32,412 --> 01:52:33,584
- The cook got furious.
- 881
- 01:52:33,664 --> 01:52:35,666
- He started towards her
- with his fist raised...
- 882
- 01:52:35,832 --> 01:52:38,881
- and Mother slapped him hard,
- right across the face.
- 883
- 01:52:39,044 --> 01:52:40,921
- I was stunned.
- 884
- 01:52:41,088 --> 01:52:43,557
- I thought he was going
- to kill her right then.
- 885
- 01:52:44,883 --> 01:52:46,760
- But he didn't.
- 886
- 01:52:48,679 --> 01:52:51,398
- The cook didn't stop
- at bait either, no.
- 887
- 01:52:52,599 --> 01:52:54,192
- The sailor...
- 888
- 01:52:55,936 --> 01:52:58,280
- He went the same
- way the rat went.
- 889
- 01:53:01,024 --> 01:53:03,527
- The cook was a resourceful man.
- 890
- 01:53:07,698 --> 01:53:09,871
- It was a week later that he...
- 891
- 01:53:11,576 --> 01:53:13,749
- Because of me.
- 892
- 01:53:13,912 --> 01:53:16,882
- Because I couldn't
- hold on to a stupid turtle.
- 893
- 01:53:17,416 --> 01:53:19,919
- It slipped out of my hands
- and swam away.
- 894
- 01:53:20,085 --> 01:53:22,429
- And the cook came up and he punched
- me on the side of my head...
- 895
- 01:53:22,587 --> 01:53:24,806
- and my teeth clacked
- and I saw stars.
- 896
- 01:53:24,965 --> 01:53:26,137
- I thought he was
- going to hit me again...
- 897
- 01:53:26,300 --> 01:53:28,340
- but Mother started pounding
- on him with her fists...
- 898
- 01:53:28,427 --> 01:53:30,225
- screaming,
- "Monster, monster!"
- 899
- 01:53:30,387 --> 01:53:31,855
- She yelled at me
- to go to the raft.
- 900
- 01:53:33,765 --> 01:53:36,564
- I thought she was coming with
- me, or I'd never have...
- 901
- 01:53:39,479 --> 01:53:42,107
- I don't know why I didn't
- make her go first.
- 902
- 01:53:44,109 --> 01:53:46,453
- I think about that every day.
- 903
- 01:53:52,492 --> 01:53:56,167
- I jumped over and turned back
- just as the knife came out.
- 904
- 01:54:00,083 --> 01:54:02,586
- There wasn't anything
- I could do.
- 905
- 01:54:04,421 --> 01:54:06,423
- I couldn't look away.
- 906
- 01:54:10,635 --> 01:54:13,104
- He threw her body overboard.
- 907
- 01:54:14,765 --> 01:54:18,611
- And then the sharks came.
- And I saw what they...
- 908
- 01:54:23,315 --> 01:54:24,942
- I saw.
- 909
- 01:54:31,031 --> 01:54:33,625
- The next day, I killed him.
- 910
- 01:54:34,785 --> 01:54:37,629
- He didn't even fight back. He
- knew he had gone too far...
- 911
- 01:54:37,788 --> 01:54:39,961
- even by his own standards.
- 912
- 01:54:41,833 --> 01:54:43,380
- He'd left the knife
- out on the bench,
- 913
- 01:54:43,460 --> 01:54:46,634
- and I did to him what
- he did to the sailor.
- 914
- 01:54:49,383 --> 01:54:52,637
- He was such an evil man,
- but worse still, he...
- 915
- 01:54:54,554 --> 01:54:57,353
- He brought the evil out in me.
- 916
- 01:54:58,809 --> 01:55:01,187
- And I have to live with that.
- 917
- 01:55:07,901 --> 01:55:10,654
- I was alone in a lifeboat...
- 918
- 01:55:11,530 --> 01:55:14,374
- drifting across
- the Pacific Ocean.
- 919
- 01:55:15,075 --> 01:55:16,918
- And I survived.
- 920
- 01:55:22,040 --> 01:55:25,340
- After that, they
- had no more questions.
- 921
- 01:55:25,502 --> 01:55:29,177
- The investigators didn't seem
- to like the story, exactly.
- 922
- 01:55:30,006 --> 01:55:34,512
- But they thanked me, they
- wished me well, and they left.
- 923
- 01:55:41,184 --> 01:55:43,357
- So the stories...
- 924
- 01:55:46,022 --> 01:55:48,400
- both the zebra
- and the sailor...
- 925
- 01:55:48,859 --> 01:55:50,782
- broke their leg.
- 926
- 01:55:51,194 --> 01:55:54,414
- And the hyena killed the
- zebra and the orangutan.
- 927
- 01:55:54,865 --> 01:55:58,870
- So... the hyena is the cook.
- 928
- 01:55:59,202 --> 01:56:01,546
- The sailor is the zebra.
- 929
- 01:56:01,872 --> 01:56:04,591
- Your mother is the orangutan.
- 930
- 01:56:04,916 --> 01:56:08,045
- And you are...
- 931
- 01:56:08,879 --> 01:56:11,302
- the tiger.
- 932
- 01:56:15,302 --> 01:56:17,100
- Can I ask you something?
- 933
- 01:56:18,597 --> 01:56:20,440
- Of course.
- 934
- 01:56:20,599 --> 01:56:24,445
- I've told you two stories about
- what happened out on the ocean.
- 935
- 01:56:24,603 --> 01:56:27,903
- Neither explains what caused
- the sinking of the ship...
- 936
- 01:56:28,064 --> 01:56:32,240
- and no one can prove which story
- is true and which is not.
- 937
- 01:56:32,402 --> 01:56:35,747
- In both stories,
- the ship sinks...
- 938
- 01:56:35,906 --> 01:56:38,830
- my family dies and I suffer.
- 939
- 01:56:39,284 --> 01:56:40,752
- True.
- 940
- 01:56:43,288 --> 01:56:45,586
- So, which story do you prefer?
- 941
- 01:56:53,089 --> 01:56:55,262
- The one with the tiger.
- 942
- 01:56:56,259 --> 01:56:58,512
- That's the better story.
- 943
- 01:57:01,848 --> 01:57:03,600
- Thank you.
- 944
- 01:57:04,184 --> 01:57:06,607
- And so it goes with God.
- 945
- 01:57:18,323 --> 01:57:20,166
- Mamaji was right.
- 946
- 01:57:21,159 --> 01:57:23,457
- It's an amazing story.
- 947
- 01:57:24,871 --> 01:57:26,794
- Will you really
- let me write it?
- 948
- 01:57:26,957 --> 01:57:28,379
- Of course.
- 949
- 01:57:28,542 --> 01:57:31,796
- Isn't that why Mamaji
- sent you here, after all?
- 950
- 01:57:35,799 --> 01:57:37,392
- My wife is here.
- 951
- 01:57:37,551 --> 01:57:39,792
- Do you want to stay for dinner?
- She's an incredible cook.
- 952
- 01:57:39,803 --> 01:57:40,975
- I didn't know you had a wife.
- 953
- 01:57:41,137 --> 01:57:43,356
- And a cat and two children.
- 954
- 01:57:43,974 --> 01:57:46,352
- So, your story does
- have a happy ending.
- 955
- 01:57:46,810 --> 01:57:49,484
- Well, that's up to you.
- 956
- 01:57:49,813 --> 01:57:52,157
- The story is yours now.
- 957
- 01:58:07,497 --> 01:58:08,544
- Hmm.
- 958
- 01:58:09,541 --> 01:58:13,762
- "Mr. Patel's is an astounding
- story of courage and endurance...
- 959
- 01:58:13,920 --> 01:58:16,890
- unparalleled in the
- history of shipwrecks."
- 960
- 01:58:17,048 --> 01:58:21,349
- "Very few castaways can claim to
- have survived so long at sea...
- 961
- 01:58:21,511 --> 01:58:24,060
- and none in the company...
- 962
- 01:58:24,222 --> 01:58:26,896
- of an adult Bengal tiger."
- 963
- 01:58:29,352 --> 01:58:30,649
- Hi, Dad.
- 964
- 01:58:31,021 --> 01:58:33,740
- We have a guest.
- Let me introduce you.
- 965
- 01:58:34,608 --> 01:58:35,734
- Hi.
- Hi.
- 966
- 01:58:36,026 --> 01:58:37,278
- Nice to meet you.
- 967
- 01:58:37,444 --> 01:58:38,696
- Adita.
- 968
- 01:58:39,696 --> 01:58:40,913
- Ravi.
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