The Jungle Book
A world-class romantic story between Mowgli and Jungle
In the Jungle, a few clouds scattered like pieces of jigsaw puzzle. The brown leaves fall to the earth as gently as feathers. The sound of running water in the brook has paused me to drink from the sound. A pack of wolves, a herd of bison gathered at the peace rock to drink the water. A distant roaring, all animals took few steps back — a tiger with its blazing orange eyes walked with courage. They called this tiger “Shere Khan”. We can’t give a better introduction for a fearsome villain “Shere Khan”. He is the best villain of this decade.
The Jungle Book is a classic romantic story. Our protagonist “Mowgli” fallen in love with a beautiful jungle. Both were in a living relationship for eight years. When her father “Shere Khan” get to know about their love, Shere Khan trying to kill “Mowgli”. Instead of Car chase scenes in Bollywood, we had Buffalo chasing and escaping scenes. In other romantic movies, humans fought with guns and swords, here, animals fought with their own hand and legs. That shows, animals are braver than us.
This Jungle Book shows the importance of “Power of Communications”. Unlike other regular movies, all animals got an opportunity to convey their emotions. I really don’t know which Toastmasters club they are part of. They produced good quality of speakers. When Bagheera mentions “This is the law of the jungle, as old and as true as the sky”. He learned this from Project-4 of Competent Communication manual with vivid description and similes. On another scene, when Shere Khan says “A man-cub becomes a man and man is forbidden”. He used his Project-6 “Vocal Variety”. We can see toastmaster touch throughout the movie. It’s worth to have one time visit to their Toastmasters club. Toastmasters Community has to announce “The Jungle Book” as the movie of the decade.
Number three, in the entire movie, the whole theatre was shocked when Shere Khan failed on the negotiation table, he brutally killed Mowgli’s mentor Akheela, a lone wolf. That painful scene created a bundle of hatred towards Shere Khan from every person. This emotional transformation from screen to our heart shows they made a perfect marriage between Narration and CGI. Especially, the lip sync with talking animals were mind-blowing. I was surprised about they did most of Graphics through a Mac laptop, but most of us just doing copy/paste.
In some places, I felt this movie missed opportunities to overtake Disney’s previous movies like (Tangled and Toy Story) because of two specific reasons. Even though, this movie has 6 songs other than one song rest of the songs were floated like a plastic bag on the top of pond water. They failed to make us hum the songs once we came out.
Second, at the climax, Mowgli burnt the jungle and killed the tiger is totally unacceptable. It sets the bad example for kids to burn forest and kill the tiger. Instead, they would change the story as Tiger took an oath to become a vegetarian. That climax would be more convincing and memorable for the audience.
If the makers of the movie avoided these mistakes. This might become an all-time extraordinary movie, now it became as one of the good movies of 2016.
Still, I am suggesting our Government of India to do a free screening of “The Jungle Book” not only to human species but also to Wolves, Tiger, Monkeys, and for the whole jungle. Those animals would enjoy more than us. If not, this would be like we prepared special food for our Special Guests but we ate everything and made our Guests to leave the house with an empty stomach.
My rating for this movie is 4 out of 5 stars.
