With the aim of delivering a widespread plea to halt the poaching of the gentle giants, Junglee is a sure plot to lead you towards your first step to protect and save elephants. What is perhaps one of the best things highlighted in the movie is the various sizes of elephants that disclose the illustrated scenes between scenes between Jamwal and elephants.
The movie is a subtle platform for actor Vidyut Jamwal to reveal his strong martial arts skills and perhaps show off his sculpted body thereby showcasing his ability to banter with pachyderms. The movie is an average fiction film on wildlife wherein the animals are not actually in the wild but have been shown to have been domesticated or raised in captivity. These animals cannot deal away with the cult of anthropomorphism. The movie has been essentially shot at a sanctuary in Thailand.
Directed by Chuck Russell, the movie highlights one of the most common headline revolving and making frequent appearances in Indian news headlines on idea of the human-animal conflict. Raj played by the actor is a veterinary doctor, leaves the elephant sanctuary where he grew up to come to Mumbai, when gang of poachers, led by the hunter Keshav played by actor Atul Khatri happen to target tusker Bhola who is Raj’s favourite since childhood.
Raj is then seen to seek out help from female mahout Shanku played by Pooja Sawant as well as activist Meera played by Asha Bhat. This is just one of the illustrated scenes.
Overall the movie revolves around been dead serious which firmly belongs in the realm of the children’s movie and is distributed evenly between the humans and the thick-skinned pachyderms as the message evolves strongest when they saunter across the screen.