MUMBAI: Ang Lee‘s Life Of Pi will have a wide a release as any other Hollywood film in India encompassing more than 300 3D screens across the country.

According to Fox Star Studios CEO Vijay Singh, the film will also be dubbed in various Indian languages including Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu.

Though he did not specify the total number of screens and locations, it is indicated that the film might be released in more than 800 screens making it the widest ever release of a Hollywood film with a debutant Indian actor in the lead.

Life Of Pi is based on an adapted screenplay of a best-selling novel by Yann Martel of the same name, is being promoted as an adventure film and a 3D visual extravaganza that tells the story of a 16-year-old Piscine Molitor Patel (Pi) of Pondicherry who survives a shipwreck along with animals like an orangutan, a zebra, a hyena and a Royal Bengal Tiger.

The film metaphorically explores the issues of spirituality, religion and life and has been hailed as one of the most important films of the year by well-known international critics. It is expected to be in the race for the Oscars in 2013.

The film, the worldwide theatrical release of which is slated for 23 November, stars Irrfan Khan, Tabu, Suraj Sharma, Adil Hussain and Gerard Depardieu.

It had its world premiere at the New York Film Festival some time back and is also the opening film at the International Film Festival of India, Goa (IFFI, Goa) this year where Ang Lee presented a curtain raiser of his film to the media and a select gathering of Bollywood celebrities.