Tabu, Irrfan and Suraj Sharma get candid about Life of Pi

How the promise of a free lunch led Suraj Sharma to unwittingly land the lead role in Ang Lee’s next Suraj Sharma was your average 17-year-old, going to school, without the slightest inkling of what he wanted to do in life. Circumstances, however, landed him at the audition of Ang And the boy who’d never harboured any ambitions to be an actor, found himself playing the central character of Pi.

As Irrfan, Tabu and Suraj (the cast of the film) dropped in for a chat, Suraj reveals how it all happened by sheer luck.