Notice that the actor Irfan Khan is also obsessed with “Richard Parker” in the Amazing Spider-man. What’s up with that?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SB8CdNIwoY
I have no idea.
I will say the scenes with Ifran Khan were boring.
It was Suraj Sharma that sold the movie.
In an Edgar Allan Poe novel, Richard Parker was a sailor who survived a shipwreck but was cannibalized by some other sailors. I think that is where the author of "life of Pi" got the name.
Not a spiderman fan so I don't know how if fits there, but if Irfan Khan is also in Spiderman..... perhaps he wanted to work it in somehow.
Funny!