11.1 Jungle Book "Wolves"

Mumbai Crime

Ayeesha Menon takes Rudyard Kipling’s family classic and gives it a darker twist, re-imagining it in the concrete jungle of present-day India. A gangland coming-of-age fable.
Mowgli, the orphan boy at the centre of the story, is being brought up by "the Wolves", a gang of petty criminals in a tenement block in Mumbai and quickly learns how to survive in that world. But when the villainous politician, Tiger Khan threatens Mowgli's life, two residents of the tenement block, "black panther" Bagheera and the "bear" Baloo, offer to help him escape and he embarks on a journey of self-discovery through the city, meeting "creatures" along the way who don't always have his best interests at heart.

Recorded in India

CAST:

Mo - Namit Das

Tiger Khan - Rajit Kapur

Mrs Gupta - Shernaz Patel

Mr Gupta- Zafar Karachiwala

Bugs - Sukant Goel

Yuva- Abir Abrar

Kala- Shikha Talsania

Rikita- Devika Shahani

Father Carvalho - Sohrab Ardeshir

Young Kala/Rani- Preetika Chawla

Young Mo - Omkar Kulkarni

Dimple - Trisha Kale

Bobby - Alka Sharma

Varun/Boy - Ajitesh Gupta

Amma - Prerna Chawla

Raksha- Shivani Tanksale

Rafiq & Naag- Tavish Bhattacharyya

Baldeo/Tabaqui/Purun Bhagat- Vivek Madan

Akhil - Nadir Khan

Written and directed by Ayeesha Menon

Producer, Nadir Khan

Executive Producer, John Scott Dryden

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