'Junglee' locked for Dussehra release next year
Mumbai
November 13, 2017
Actor Vidyut Jammwal starrer "Junglee", about elephant
poaching and ivory smuggling, has been locked for release on Dussehra on October
19 next year.
Backed by Junglee Pictures and directed by Chuck Russel,
the film is set to be an action-adventure thriller, in which the protagonist
takes down the elephant poaching racket in the country, read a statement.
The film is about Ashwath -- born and brought up in the jungles of Kerala --
who goes on to become a big shot veterinarian in the big city of Mumbai -- much
to his animal-activist father's disappointment.
Upon his grandmother's
insistence, Ashwath visits the jungle for the tenth death anniversary of his
mother. His homecoming is met with some thaw with his father and it gets warmer
as he reunites with his childhood elephant sister, whom he refers to as 'Didi',
and her calf, 'Apu'.
But little does he know about the danger of poaching
looming over the jungle, until it actually strikes and takes the lives of 'Apu'
as well as his father.
Mumbai
November 13, 2017
Actor Vidyut Jammwal starrer "Junglee", about elephant
poaching and ivory smuggling, has been locked for release on Dussehra on October
19 next year.
Backed by Junglee Pictures and directed by Chuck Russel,
the film is set to be an action-adventure thriller, in which the protagonist
takes down the elephant poaching racket in the country, read a statement.
The film is about Ashwath -- born and brought up in the jungles of Kerala --
who goes on to become a big shot veterinarian in the big city of Mumbai -- much
to his animal-activist father's disappointment.
Upon his grandmother's
insistence, Ashwath visits the jungle for the tenth death anniversary of his
mother. His homecoming is met with some thaw with his father and it gets warmer
as he reunites with his childhood elephant sister, whom he refers to as 'Didi',
and her calf, 'Apu'.
But little does he know about the danger of poaching
looming over the jungle, until it actually strikes and takes the lives of 'Apu'
as well as his father.
Tags: Vidyut Jamwal