'The Jungle Book' inches towards the Rs 200 crore mark - Disney contemplates a sequel

'The Jungle Book' is inching closer to the Rs 200 crore mark and Disney contemplates a sequel. A film by Hollywood filmmaker Jon Favreau, 'The Jungle Book' has Indian-American actor Neel Sethi in the lead role of Mowgli and has gelled well with the Indian audiences. It was released on 8 April and in the 50 days since its release in India it has minted over Rs 180 crores. The movie brings an enchanting story of a boy straight from an Indian jungle.
This has been reported in indianexpress.com dated 27 May 2016.

It has been confirmed by Disney that 'The Jungle Book' had amassed Rs.2.56 crore in its seventh week, taking the cumulative total to Rs.183.94 crore (nett box office collection). Mowgli has made India one of the top four internationally performing markets for the movie.
Incidentally, while most Hindi films struggle to complete three or four weeks, ‘The Jungle Book’ has enters week eight. It was released in India in four languages — English, Hindi, Tamil and Telugu. Bollywood stars Irrfan Khan, Priyanka Chopra, Nana Patekar, Shefali Shah and Om Puri have lent their voices for the Hindi version of the movie.


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Jon Favreau, the director of 'The Jungle Book', enjoys Indian cuisine

Jon Favreau, the director of “The Jungle Book” has been won over by 'desi’ Indian flavors and aromas thanks to the film’s lead star Neel Sethi’s mother preparing a “home cooked Indian feast” for him. The director is overwhelmed and has said that if he plans to make “Chef 2”, he would love to include Indian cuisine in it.
Jon Favreau is well known globally as the director of “Iron Man” and “Chef” and the meal he had was the Indian spread that included biryani, naan and aloo gobi.
This has been reported in indianexpress.com dated 8 April 2016.

Neel is an Indian-American boy with roots tracing back to Punjab and he portrays the role of Mowgli in the fantasy adventure film. In the Disney’s “The Jungle Book”, Favreau has re-imagined the world of an enchanting Indian jungle, the story of which was first told via Rudyard Kipling’s 1894 timeless classic and then brought alive in the eponymous 1967 animated movie.
The film is supported by a stellar cast that includes Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley, Idris Elba, Lupita Nyong’o, Scarlett Johansson and Christopher Walken. Its Hindi dubbed version is voiced by a string of popular Bollywood stars like Priyanka Chopra and Irrfan Khan.


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