MUMBAI: Academy-award-winning director Ang Lee is all set to shoot his next ambitious film, Life of Pi in Kerala.

The film, an adaptation of the book by Canadian author Yann Martel and set in Puducherry, narrates 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 Taiwanese-American director had recently made a stop-over at Mumbai for the Indian round of casting. He later scouted for locations in Puducherry where part of the film will be shot. The filming will commence soon and Lee is currently dividing his time between New York and Southern India.

Lee, whose credits include films like Brokeback Mountain, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and Hulk, took over this project from Jean-Pierre Jeunet in 2009.