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Junglee (transl. "Wild" or "Ill-Mannered") is a 1961 Indian comedy film produced and directed by Subodh Mukherjee. The music is composed by Shankar-Jaikishan and the lyrics by Shailendra and Hasrat Jaipuri. The film stars Shammi Kapoor, Saira Banu (in her debut film) in lead roles, along with Shashikala, Anoop Kumar, Lalita Pawar in supporting roles. Saira Banu earned a Filmfare nomination as Best Actress.[1]

Chandrashekhar, shortly called Shekhar belongs to an aristocratic family, run by Shekhar's domineering mother. He completes his education in London and comes back to run his business. In his family, people shouldn't talk more than needed and laughter is completely prohibited. Shekhar follows all these rules strictly and wholeheartedly, but his younger sister Mala is not like him. She laughs and roams freely and even falls in love with Jeevan, an employee in her brother's company.

When her mother finds out that Mala is in love with a common man, she asks her son to take her away to some distant place and make her forget this man. Shekhar agrees and takes Mala to Kashmir. There he meets the charming and lively Rajkumari, daughter of a local doctor and gets attracted to her. But he remembers his mother's expectations that he should marry a girl from the aristocratic family and maintains a distance with Rajkumari.

But one day, they both get stuck in a snowstorm for two days, which gives him enough time to grow closer to her. In that time, he understands what is important in life and becomes a carefree man. Meanwhile, Mala, who was actually pregnant before they came to Kashmir, gives birth to a son. Rajkumari and her father maintain the secret from everyone and from her brother. They come back to their home and his mother gets shocked by seeing the carefree and changed Shekhar. He even tells her about his love, but she mistakes that name of Rajkumari for a real princess. When she learns that she is not the princess, she decides against the marriage. But after some drama, she too discovers that the real value of people lies in their hearts, not in titles, and she accepts Rajkumari as her daughter-in-law. It is revealed that Mala secretly married Jeevan a year ago and their son was legitimate. Everyone accepts Jeevan into their home and laughter comes back to their home.

From this movie only office scenes have been remade in the 1984 film Hum Hain Lajawaab directed by Mohan Segal Starring Kumar Gaurav and Padmini Kolhapure. In both movies actor Shivraj has played the role of employee. The only difference is that in Hum Hain Lajawaab, movie Manager/Uncle role is played by actor Vikas Anand and actor Shivraj has played a role of employee.Nanda was offered the lead role but she rejected.

All songs[5] was composed by Shankar-Jaikishan, except "Ai Ai Aa Sukoo Sukoo" by Tarateo Rojas and lyrics were penned by Hasrat Jaipuri and Shailendra. Shammi Kapoor once said in an interview that the word "Yahoo!" in the song "Chahe Koi Mujhe Junglee Kahe" was not rendered by Mohammed Rafi, who sang the song, but by Prayag Raj.

Mr. Chuck Russell is back on the big screen, baby! The director of THE BLOB, DREAM WARRIORS and THE SCORPION KING went to India and made an action film with hunky star Vidyut Jamwal that's kinda like Tony Jaa's Tom Yum Goong (But not really). I hope you like elephants, because ohhhhhhhhhh boy, does this have elephants! Too many really! And they're brutally murdered on screen in horrifying ways!

A disappointing endeavour that succumbs to its slack pacing, cliched storytelling and uninteresting characters. The action scenes -- led by JC Stunt Team member Lee Chung-chi -- lend some spark but it only comes to life in the climax.

As an action star, Vidyut JAMMWAL (FORCE / COMMANDO I to III) really packs a punch: here he plays a veterinarian from Mumbai who visits his widowed father (Thalaivasal VIJAY) again after ten years. He runs an elephant farm in the jungle. Unfortunately, unscrupulous poachers (the main enemy: Atul KULKAMI) are on the hunt for ivory. Luckily, the well-trained veterinarian is also skilled in martial arts, just like his childhood friend (Akshay OBEROI)...

"Junglee" is the first certified classic in Vidyut Jammwal's body of work. The action sequences are genuinely cool, but the movie manages a little tonal whiplash very well overall. It has this sweeping majesty in its reverence for elephants and big chunks of the film's plot and good nature lend it to feeling family appropriate.

I don't know if i want to high five or slap whoever came up with the Ganesh scene, maybe both. Yeah, the script has a ton of issues, but Russell makes the most out of the thin story, and Jamwal is always fun to watch. He should be the biggest action star in the world right now, he just needs to stop making mid movies.