Director Shankar is one of the most versatile and lavish directors of the present generation. He is popularly known for his high budget movies and has got good number of super hits in his kitty. His last directorial venture was Rajnikanth’s ‘Robot’.

Shankar is right now busy with the shooting of his upcoming film ‘Ai’, which is going to be dubbed in to Telugu as ‘Manoharudu’. This maverick director is the latest one to be bitten by the social networking bug. Till date he was posting his filmy updates through his official website www.directorshankaronline.com and has just joined Twitter and Facebook to interact with his fans. He can be followed on Twitter @shankarshanmugh and on FB through www.facebook.com/shankarofficial

The shooting of his film is in the final stages of completion and Vikram is the hero of this high budget movie. Amy Jackson is the heroine and AR Rahman is composing the music. Aascar Ravichandran is producing this film and will be releasing next year.

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