Mr. Richard Parker the tiger

In Yann MARTEL's book, Richard Parker is the tiger which survives on the lifeboat with Pi. It develops a relation with Pi that helps them coexist.
6 tigers are used for the production of the film ! You ask why they use 6 tigers for the production, and thet in the story there is only 1 ?
Here's the answer : It is because you can't force a tiger to act ! If a tiger doesn't want to act, he doesn't acts. You have to use another one.
MARTEL, in his story, named the tiger after many persons and story characters who had the same name, like in a Allan POE's novel, like many stories of survivors of a ship wreck who were known to have practiced cannibalism in order to survive.
MARTEL thought, "So many victimized Richard Parkers had to mean something.", so he gave the same to the tiger in his story which has to survive in a lifeboat with a little boy.
So here are the reasons for which the Richard Parker role was named like that, and how many tigers played the role in the film.
It will be blockbuster, don't miss it !

_Article by PERTHUS Maghesh and SIVAPRAGASSAM Aswin, 3ème European Section.