MUMBAI: Taking a cue from producer Jon Landau who came here to promote Titanic 3D,Taiwanese-American filmmaker Ang Lee will come to India sometime in December to promote his upcoming film Life of Pi.

Confirming the same an officer from the press division of the Taiwan embassy said, "As far as we know, he is coming this year."

The novel, set in Puducherry of the 1970S, narrates the ordeals of a young Indian boy, the lone survivor of a shipwreck, sharing a life boat for over 200 days with a hyena, a zebra with a broken leg, a female orangutan and a 45-pound Royal Bengal tiger.

The 57-year-old Lee had reportedly shot about 30 per cent of the film in Puducherry early last year after a six-month recce with his pre-production team.

The 3D fantasy adventure, based on the Booker-winning novel of the same name by Yann Martel, also has Irrfan Khan, Tabu, Tobey Maguire and Gerard Depardieu.