Delhi boy Suraj to star in Ang Lee's next film

For Delhi boy Suraj Sharma fame may not be far away for he has been cast in Academy Award winning director Ang Lee’s next film.

Sharma, a 17-year-old student has bagged the lead role for Lee’s next big project – a screen adaptation of 2002 Man Booker prize-winning novel Life of Pi by Yann Martel, said The Guardian.

The Delhi boy competed against 3,000 other challengers to win the role. It has been reported that the work on the film will start in January 2011.

In Martel's award-winning novel the shipwrecked protagonist holds on to a life raft and has only a female orangutan, an injured zebra, a hungry hyena and a brooding Bengal tiger as companions.

The buzz that is doing the rounds is that Lee is set to make use of state-of-the-art technology to direct the film, and the film, when finished, will be released in 3D.

Renowned filmmakers such as M Night Shyamalan, Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Alfonso Cuarón have all been associated with the film at one point or another before Ang Lee finally got the production moving.