"Mowgli: Legend of The Jungle"

A new adventure drama film released in early December 2018 entitled Mowgli or the complete title Mowgli: Legend of The Jungle. This film directed by Andi Serkis with a screenplay by Callie Kloves. 

The story that raised in this film based on stories collected in All the Mowgli Stories by Rudyard Kipling. In 2016, the same genre of film was released in the film industry with the title The Jungle Book, this film also adapted from a collection of stories by Rudyard Kipling. There are similarities in the names of characters, only a few are different and the settings and plot of both are quite different. 

Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle is a film that has been bought by Netflix for distribution rights from Warner Bros. The film is played by Rohan Chand as Mowgli, Matthew Rhys as John Lockwood a colonial hunter, Freida Pinto as Messua. Meanwhile, voice actors for the animal character in the movie are Christian Bale as Bagheera, Benedict Cumberbatch as Shere Khan. Cate Blanchett as Kaa, Andy Serkis as Baloo, and Peter Mulan as Akela. The jungle was chosen as the main place setting of this film.

    The story begins in a forest where chaos was caused by a very barbaric tiger named Shere Khan. For the chaos, he made this caused human death. This tragedy leaves baby boys who survived and are still alive. This baby was then secured by Bagheera, a black panther type animal. Bagheera took him to the territory of the wolves. This is where Mowgli grows and was raised. 

This pack of wolves was led by Akela, the oldest wolf. Apparently, Share Khan is a barbaric tiger who does not like this, he does not allow a human child to live in the middle of the forest, he intends to kill little Mowgli as he did to Mowgli's parents. But Share Khan's desire was opposed by Nisha, a female wolf who had decided to adopt Mowgli to be her child and would raise him like a wolf in general. Share Khan left and promised one day he would come back again.

It turned out that the existence of Mowgli who played by Rohan Chand caused problems for the pack of wolves. This is where the touching heart parts of the film Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle begins. Every day Mowgli is always trained to be like other wolves. This is Mowgli's struggle to be recognized as part of a wolves pack. Akela promises that as long as he is alive he will always protect Mowgli as long as Mowgli promises to stay alive like a wolf. A pack of wolves had an oath not to use the ways of life used by humans. 

Then Mowgli did this it meant that Mowgli was not part of the wolf. And this was a very tearful part when Mowgli struggled at the final level to become part of a pack of wolves but was foiled by Bagheera because he wanted Mowgli to return to the humans avoiding the return attack of Share Khan.

 At the climax of the film's story when Akela gets an attack from Sheer Khan and Mowgli intends to help her with a torch, human equipment actually makes Akela and the pack of wolves disappointed. Mowgli went to the human village. The departure of Mowgli to the human village did not make the pack of wolves and jungle better. Sheer Khan continues to do mischief. 

Mowgli returned to the forest and killed Sheer Khan with the help of jungle dwellers like Bagheera, Baloo, a pack of wolves and elephants who had petrified Mowgli from the pursuit of Shere Khan. And this is another sad scene when Akela is killed while helping Mowgli against Shere Khan. Sheer Khan was killed in the hands of Mowgli.

The acting of the actress was very charming. Each character really animates their respective roles. Of course not only the cast of human figures that deserves a thumb up. The voice actors of various animal characters are no less great. Their voices are truly deep so they are able to wash away the atmosphere. The cast of the main character in this film Mowgli gives a special impression to the audience. Rohan Chand the way he plays his role is very nice and stunning. How he displays his emotions is truly second to none.