His creatures entertain and tell the story in true Bollywood style (too many songs and too much drama ‘foxes’ the plot). With satire, spoof, humour and wit, director, Nikhil Advani has highlighted the ongoing aadmi v/s animal battle, the desperate need for preservation of wildlife and the downside of deforestation. They give live bytes to the media and make headlines (thankfully, they aren’t tweeting yet). And guess what, these worldly-wise animals talk about casting couches, and saas-bahu tele-shows too (more power to Ekta Kapoor!) That’s not it. There are also creatures like a parinda with ‘Ghajini’-like tattoos under his wing, a bat (called Batman) who impersonates Dev saab, and an evil hyena called Kaalia (Prem Chopra) who sings Tandoori Nights (die-hard Himesh Reshammiya fan). They do action scenes in slow-mo (inspired by ‘ Ek Tha Tiger’, maybe), sing romantic duets, dance garba, say dialogues like, “Mere paas maa hai”, and exchange jaadu ki jhappi ( Munnabhai chale jungle mein, haan?). What’s entertaining is that this animal kingdom is a product of Bollywood (they should’ve moved to Film City studios, instead). But Yuvi isn’t ready to give up his homeland yet he convinces his fellow janwars for jung, and they head to Delhi to protest at the Parliament. Suddenly there’s crisis in their ‘wild-life’, as men from civilized society bull-doze into their forest area in Mumbai, only to build towers and more towers. Bagga the bear (Boman Irani), Bajrangi (Govinda) the head of the vanar-sena, with a gamcha around his head (take a bow Anurag Kashyap), and Alex (Akshaye Khanna) the popat, who’s the only one who speaks human language. Introducing Yuvraj (no, not Salman Khan) - lovingly called Yuvi – the cub leopard (Swini Khara) and Begum, his Mom (Urmila Matondkar).
What in the world are they doing in the land of tamed creatures (read: Man)? We’ll tell you. Let’s welcome the new denizens of the (concrete) jungle. Look around the city you can probably spot a lonely leopard at a ‘zebra-crossing’, a bear working his fat-ass off in your gym or a bandar - ek Virar-fast-local-train-ke-andar. Movie Review: Welcome to Animal Planet! Not the one of guts and gore of Tellyland’s jaws, paws and claws but our own animated jungle mein mangal. Story:Five awesome-pawsome animals are enroute Delhi to fight for their rights, and bring justice to the jungle.
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