Oscar Award winning director Ang Lee whose credits include films like ‘Brokeback Mountain’, ’Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon’ and ’Hulk’ among others has settled for the picturesque Kerala to shoot his film ‘Life of Pi’ adapted from Booker Prize winning novel written by Canadian author Yann Martel.

The novel is set in Puducherry and it is about the ordeals of a young Indian boy, the lone survivor of a shipwreck, sharing a lifeboat with a hyena, a zebra, an orangutan and a tiger. The film’s spirit is Indian and the film is going to be an Indian story directed by the Taiwanese-American Ang Lee.

Ang Lee is said to have completed his race in Kerala and Puducherry and will soon begin shooting. He took over the project from Jean-Pierre Jeunet in 2009. 20th Century Fox produces this film.