Surendra said about the day he received the rejection e-mail: “I felt like someone had died. In the end, they gave it to somebody else.” I worked really, really hard to try to get this part. “‘Life of Pi’ was attached to four different directors over the years so every time a new director (came aboard), I’d go to the library and get out all the movies they had made and research that director. Surendra shared details of the preparation he put in for the part, including research he did on each director attached to the project. It was actually six years because of that year off,” he added. Three months turned into a year turned into four years.
They lost their director and the project ended up getting put on hold so I went back to college,” he told GQ. I assumed that it was going to happen any day now and it didn’t. I did that for a few months and came back and was just waiting for them to start production. So, I dropped out of college to go to the little town in India where the book takes place so that I could do some in-depth research. “While we were shooting ‘Mean Girls’ during my first year of college, I found out they were turning ‘The Life of Pi’ into a film. The film got 11 Oscar nominations and Ang Lee won the Best Director Award. The role eventually went to the newcomer Suraj Sharma, who became an overnight sensation following the film’s release in 2012. Surendra told GQ that he desperately wanted the lead role in “Life of Pi” – for which he dropped out of college and prepared rigorously six years. Actor Rajiv Surendra, best known as rapper and Mathlete Kevin G of Lindsay Lohan’s “Mean Girls”, revealed the heartbreaking reason he quit films.
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