Oscar-winning director Ang Lee said he worked hard during the four years of shooting on Life of Pi to give the $100 million art house flick appeal for general audiences.

The flick based on Yann Martel's imaginative book stars Indian Suraj Sharma, who plays a boy who drifts on the open sea with a Bengal tiger and a hyena after a ship carrying the rest of his family sinks.

"As an art house film, you can explore the philosophical issues," Lee said at a news conference Wednesday.

"But for a popular film, we also need to make the audience feel touched, and that was the difficult part."

Lee said initial reaction to the flick had been positive, leaving him to conclude that his "risky experiment" would be a success.

A major problem in the filming, Lee said, was coping with animals on a roiling sea - a problem Lee solved by filming in 3D.... See Complete Article @ Cineplex