Shankar has hit the bull's eye once again with Nanban, and has every reason to smile. The director came with the entire Nanban team to watch the first show at Sathyam Cinemas on Thursday (12 Jan) morning, first day first show.

It was fan frenzy, as everyone wanted to get a glimpse of Ilayathalapathy Vijay who hardly comes to a theatre on the opening day of his film. The Nanban team at Sathyam consisted of Vijay, Shankar, SJ Suryah, Sathyaraj, Srikanth and Sathyan.

After the show the entire team were given a standing ovation by balcony crowd at Sathyam. Vijay's wife Sangeeta went and hugged him and told him it is the best film of his, that she had seen.

Later the team went for the press show at Prasad Lab. Shankar was all smiles as he met the media aftera long time. Answering questions with ease and meeting everyone with an affable smile, the director looked happy and pleased with the positive response to the first remake in his career.

Replying to questions by the media, Shankar praised the performance of his lead actors Vijay, Jiiva and Srikant and their dedication and co-operation in this multi starrer.

Looks like there may be more reason to smile for the talented director in days to come as the word-of-mouth for Nanban is positive and it has taken an earthshaking opening on day one of its release.