Ace kollywood director and proud director of Endhiran, Shankar, has been selected as the Indian of the year by the CNN-IBN Network. The director will be honoured at the special award function that will be held in New Delhi on December 22. His movie , Endhiran based on the story of a humanoid robo had ruled the charts since its release. The flick also broke all collection records and won the crew huge accolades. The latest honour to Shankar has come at the right time according to sources. The Endhiran team will also join the director at the award function that will be held in New Delhi.