Kitty sees that Mowgli is wearing her mother's bracelet and realizes who he is. Infatuated with her, Mowgli travels to Kitty's village and enters her home, alerting the guards. Kitty is also in a relationship with one of Brydon's soldiers, Captain William Boone. She and Mowgli meet again, but neither recognize the other. Winning King Louie's respect, Mowgli keeps the dagger as a trophy.Įlsewhere, Kitty and Colonel Brydon are still stationed in India. Forced to fight for his life, Mowgli succeeds in wounding the snake with a golden dagger that he retrieves from the treasure horde. Twenty years later, Mowgli, now a young man, discovers Monkey City, a legendary ancient city filled with treasure belonging to King Louie the orangutan, who has his treasure guarded by Kaa the python. Mowgli also befriends a bear cub named Baloo. Mowgli is taken by Bagheera, a gentle black panther, to the wolf pack. In the confusion, Mowgli is lost in the jungle with his pet wolf cub, Grey Brother, and Brydon and his men presume him killed. He succeeds in killing the two soldiers, but when he tries to kill Buldeo, Nathoo defends him and is subsequently mauled to death by Shere Khan. Mowgli tells Nathoo of a dream where he faced Shere Khan and showed no fear, becoming a tiger himself. That night, Kitty gives Mowgli her late mother's bracelet as a gift. Fellow guide Buldeo and two soldiers kill several animals for sport, which enrages Shere Khan, a tiger who serves as the jungle's keeper, and he begins to pursue the tour group. On one of his tours, he leads Colonel Geoffrey Brydon and his men, as well as Brydon's 5-year-old daughter Katherine nicknamed Kitty. In 1887, during the British Raj in India, Mowgli is the 5-year-old son of the widowed Nathoo, whose wife died in childbirth. In 2016, Disney released another live-action adaptation, The Jungle Book, which was more similar and faithful to both the 1967 animated film and Kipling's book.
Released on December 25, 1994, by Walt Disney Pictures, the film received generally positive reviews and grossed $70.7 million in theaters against a $30 million budget. Unlike most adaptations of Kipling's stories, the animal characters in this film do not speak.
The film stars Jason Scott Lee, Cary Elwes, Lena Headey, Sam Neill, John Cleese, and Jason Flemyng in his first theatrical film role. It is the second film adaptation by The Walt Disney Company of the Mowgli stories from The Jungle Book (1894) and The Second Jungle Book (1895) by Rudyard Kipling, and the first live-action adaptation of Walt Disney's animated film of the same name from 1967. Feldman and Raju Patel, from a story by Ronald Yanover and Mark Geldman. Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, simply known as The Jungle Book, is a 1994 American adventure film co-written and directed by Stephen Sommers, produced by Edward S.