Mowgli is a 10-year-old boy who has been raised deep in the jungle of India by his animal

friends: the wolf pack, Baloo the bear, and Bagheera the panther. Mowgli also has enemies in

the jungle: Shere Khan, the vicious tiger who killed the boy's father; and the Bandar-log,
monkeys that are hated by all other animals of the jungle.
The movie opens with Mowgli being spotted by two monkeys who have been sent to kidnap him
so that he can "teach them the ways of man", they chase Mowgli through the jungle, almost
capturing him at the top of a tree where the large monkey grabs Mowgli's ankle and feet. Mowgli
escapes by jumping from the tree and miracly lands on the ground, only to be catched by the
monkeys. Mowgli snarls and chaunts while a monkey aproaches and slams Mowgli to the
ground. As Mowgli lies helplessly on the ground waiting to be captured by the monkeys, Baloo,
Bagheera and the wolf pack arrive to rescue him.
The next morning, Mowgli wakes up and goes hunting with the wolf pack, while hunting, he is
spotted by Shere Khan, to escape, Mowgli runs and jumps into the nearby river and is quickly
swept away by the swift current. Downstream, he is able to grab a vine and climb out of the water
onto a bridge, where he finds railroad tracks.
Mowgli follows the tracks until he sees a train coming towards him, having never seen a train
before, Mowgli growls and snarls while standing directly in its path. When the conductor sees
him, he successfully stops the train, but unintentionally traps the boy under the lead car, also
never having seen other humans, Mowgli growls and snarls at the passengers who come to see
what has happened. Mowgli must be feeling scared. An American circus scout named Harrison,
takes a look at Mowgli and thinks of bringing the wild boy to the circus in America. He knows how
to handle wild animals, so he also thinks he knows how to handle the wild boy. At one point
Mowgli tries to escape the men while Harrison tells the other men to grab Mowgli. Harrison, the
conductor, and several other men on the train, wrestle Mowgli out from under the lead car. Two
of the men holding his legs and two of them holding his arms. Mowgli tries to fight the men by
kicking but two men strongly hold his legs. The men know they have the boy secured now and
carry him into the luggage car as the terrified boy desperately growls and kicks to free himself
from the men's grip. The two distinguished women, still in the train, are looking at the scene,
seeing how a young wild boy is getting captured by adult men. One woman even calls to be
carefull with the boy, but it would not help Mowgli.
Once inside the train, Mowgli's captors attempt to tie him up with ropes but are unable to fully
secure him before he escapes to the passenger cars, Mowgli pulls one of his captors with a rope
that is partially tied around his bare chest until it falls off, completely freeing him, he eventually
climbs onto the roof of the moving train with a passenger's pet monkey, Timo, Harrison sees the
boy escaping and follows him to the roof, followed shortly by Chuchandra, Timo's owner. Mowgli
then jumps off the moving train with Timo and escapes into the jungle.
Mowgli brings Timo to his home with the wolf pack, viewing Timo as a member of the hated
Bandar-log, Mowgli's wolf brothers chase the monkey away. Upset with his pack, the boy runs
away to find his new monkey friend with Baloo's help.
Meanwhile, to help catch Mowgli, Harrison seeks out the help of a local, wealthy jungle guide
named Buldeo, who believes the boy is his nephew and the only obstacle to inheriting his
family's estate, Buldeo, secretly wanting Mowgli dead, then hires Karait, a snake charmer posing
as a professional tracker, to kill the boy. The three men set out on their quest and eventually
meet Chuchandra deep in the jungle.
Mowgli and Baloo's search for Timo leads them to an old abandoned city, the home of the
Bandar-log, the monkeys successfully trap Baloo in the city's dungeon but not Mowgli, the man
cub escapes and runs to a tree outside the city, but not before being spotted by his four adult
hunters. Mowgli, unaware of the men's presence,exhausted,climbs the tree and takes an
afternoon nap.
Once Mowgli falls asleep, Karait sends his python, Kaa, up the tree. The python, on his hunting
mission, drops itself on the sleeping boy and slithers from his neck on to his body, while Mowgli
doesn't feel anything. Mowgli must have been in a very deep sleep because he even did not feel
the snake wrapping around him and slowly squeezing his body. Mowgli, who is very strong for
his age slowly feels the grip getting tighter and tighter. The snake continues to wrap around the
sleeping boy's waist and begins tightening its grip until the coils tighten Mowgli that strong, the
boy sort of opens his eyes seeying the huge python wrapped around his waist. This and the point
that he couldn't stand the strangulation anymore, wakes him up screaming, still wrapped in the
tight coils, the four men see how Mowgli wakes up struggling directly and rush to the bottom of
the tree and unravel a giant net. Buldeo saying: 'we've got him'. Mowgli does not know how to
escape the coils and is visible struggling to get out of the strong grip. Mowgli, finally, slowly pulls
away from the snake but soon finds himself dangling from the tree by only one foot that slowly
slips away from Kaa's hold. Kaa continues to grip, at Karait's command, the snake loosens it's
hold on Mowgli's foot and the boy falls into the net, the men wrestle the boy as he kicks and
growls, desperately trying to escape, they eventually wrap the boy tightly in the net, but not
before Buldeo recognizes him without a doubt as his long-lost nephew, still trying to squirm free
from the tightly wrapped net, Harrison force-feeds Mowgli some of his whiskey to sedate him.
The boy, who must have been tired from escaping hunters the whole day and especially from
being strangled by a snake, finally relaxes and even falls asleep again before he is carried to the
men's campsite.
The men unwrap the sleeping child from the net and examine his face, body, and bare chest for
signs of his health, questions of how he survived, how he could have become so strong, what he
ate, and what happened to Timo, reign as Mowgli starts to wake up, he bit Buldeo's finger, when
the boy fully awakes, Harrison ties Mowgli's right bare foot to a tree using a rope, Mowgli
curiously tugs on the rope, but sees a chance to escape as Harrison walks away, the boy tries to
run but slams hard into the ground when he reaches the end of his leash, Harrison tries to calm
the now frightened boy by finally explaining what he plans to do with him, Harrison explains to
Mowgli that he is planning to make a fortune by exploiting him in an American circus where he
will be famous as the "Wolf Boy", with different acts that involve (among other things) climbing
into a pen full of lions. Meanwhile, Karait begins setting up a cage that is to be used to hold any
other potential circus acts that Harrison may find before his and Mowgli's departure for America.
A short time later, Harrison and Buldeo leave the campsite for a nearby stream to wash off,
leaving Chuchandra and Karait to watch Mowgli, Shere Khan soon arrives, scaring off the two
adult men, leaving only he and the boy, who is still tied to a tree, in the fight that ensues, the rope
around Mowgli's foot snaps, and the boy runs free into the jungle, Harrison runs back to the
campsite to see what has happened, while Buldeo stays behind in case Mowgli runs by, Mowgli
unknowingly stops near Buldeo, giving his captor an opportunity to kidnap him once again,
Buldeo swiftly throws a blanket over Mowgli's head and forcefully slams him to the ground,
jumping on top of him, he rips the blanket from the boy's face and explains to him that his secret
agenda all along has been to murder him. As Mowgli hopelessly snarls and squirms trying to free
himself while it looks like Buldeo is almost not letting him breathe, Buldeo pulls out his knife and
taunts the boy before getting ready to strike. Just as Buldeo raises his weapon, Harrison runs by
and stops him.
The two men carry Mowgli back to the campsite and, instead of tying him to a tree again, decide
to lock him in the cage, Harrison slams the door behind the boy and Karait ties it shut, as
Harrison walks away, Buldeo walks up to Mowgli's cage and reminds Karait that he was hired to
have Kaa kill the boy, now knowing that his only living relative wants him dead, Mowgli howls for
his friends to come rescue him, despite Buldeo harshly yelling at him to "shut up", Baloo, who
has now escaped his dungeon, follows Mowgli's voice and arrives at the campsite at early dawn,
Baloo cracks one of the bars of the bamboo cage, waking up Chuchandra in the process and
quickly runs away. In the chaos that ensues, Mowgli is able to squeeze through the gap in the
cage and follows shortly behind.
Mowgli and Baloo set out on their original journey to find Timo in the abandoned city, the four
men, not knowing where Mowgli went, choose to go to the same city, as that is where they found
him the day before, Mowgli and Baloo soon get separated again, as the boy is able to fit into tight
spaces that the bear cannot, Mowgli eventually finds Timo but soon realizes that his search has
led him to an underground temple filled with deadly, poisonous cobras, as Harrison climbs to the
top of the temple, he spots his “Wolf Boy”, in serious danger through the partially shattered
windows that once served as the roof, he calls out to the boy, who knows the danger that he is
in, Mowgli looks up and sees Harrison, who has already tied the last of his rope to the roof. The
rope dangles just above the ground, as Harrison begs the boy to climb up. The very hesitant
Mowgli reluctantly agrees, as he knows that his only chance at survival is to climb up to the man
who wants to capture him.
As Mowgli reaches the top of the rope, Buldeo arrives and slams Harrison with the butt of his
rifle, briefly knocking him unconscious, Buldeo then turns to the boy, as he dangles from the roof,
needing help to climb out onto solid ground, Buldeo pulls out his knife and slowly saws through
the rope as Mowgli helplessly barks like a monkey at his uncle, Mowgli falls to the bottom of the
temple landing hard directly on his back, Buldeo mocks the boy once again as Mowgli comes
face-to-face with a striking cobra, Harrison awakes and confronts Buldeo before he can see if the
boy has been bitten, a knife fight ensues as Harrison tries desperately to defend his new circus
act, Harrison is badly injured in the moments that follow and Buldeo returns to see if Mowgli is
dead, upon finding the boy alive and walking around, Buldeo pulls out his rifle and aims directly
at the child, who can only whimper for his life, just before pulling the trigger, Buldeo hears a roar
behind him and turns around to see that Mowgli's friends, Bagheera and Baloo have come to his
rescue. Buldeo runs away and finds the first hiding spot he can, inside a cannon that rests on the
roof of another building. The Bandar-log soon find him and fire him out of the cannon into the
deep of the jungle, where he hangs from a tree as Shere Khan is nearby.
Harrison, who is able to slowly limp back to the roof, finds Karait, the snake charmer has Kaa
attached to the roof and slithering down to the bottom, the snake wraps itself around Mowgli, who
again reluctantly accepts help from his captors, as the snake wraps around Mowgli's bare chest
and arms, Kaa pulls the boy to safety on the roof, Harrison grabs the boy and carefully sets him
on the ground next to himself, he begs Mowgli to come with him and explains that he has
changed his mind about taking him to the circus, instead, he wants to take Mowgli to his home in
America and raise him, teach him how to walk, speak and give him a normal life, Mowgli
considers the offer for a short time but ultimately decides to return to the wolf pack in the jungle,
soon after, Chuchandra walks up and finds Timo safe with Mowgli and Harrison. Together,
Karait, Chuchandra and Harrison watch Mowgli run with the wolves back into the deep of the
Indian jungle.