Ace kollywood director Shankar who is a regular at social networking sites tweeted recently that the shooting of 'Nanban' is fast progressing. Nanban is the tamil remake of the hindi flick, Three Idiots. It has Vijay, Jeeva and Srikanth in lead roles. Illeana is the female lead of the flick.

"We have finished all the college exterior scenes in our second schedule in Dehradu. It’s a visually wonderful campus.It is very interesting and new experience for me to work with Vijay, Sathyaraj, Ileana and almost every actor for the first time.Vijay-Sathyaraj combo is fresh and fantastic. As friends Vijay, Jeeva and Srikanth’s ‘Physics’ & ‘Chemistry’ is working very well, behind the camera too. To say in a cliché, all of them have started living in their roles.I’m enjoying working in ‘Nanban’ which is completely contrast from ‘Endhiran’ in all aspects.", the director said. The team is hoping to complete the project by mid 2011 according to sources.