The Jungle Book (franchise) as Baloo, Ben Kingsley as Bagheera, Idris Elba as Shere Khan, Scarlett Johansson as Kaa, Lupita Nyong'o as Raksha, Giancarlo Esposito as Akela, and Christopher Walken as King Louie. The film was released on April 15, 2016 to critical acclaim. After a fierce tiger threatens his life, Mowgli, an orphan boy raised by wolves, leaves his jungle home and, guided by a stern panther and a free-spirited bear, sets out on a journey of self-discovery. Following the film's early financial and critical successes, the studio has begun work on a sequel film. Favreau is reported to return as director, while
The Black Panther of Sivanipalli and Other Adventures of the Indian Jungle explains his reasons for devoting the first five chapters to panthers. A Panther's Way Anderson discusses the habitual differences of the panther and tiger, and the methods adopted for tracking them. Man-Eating Panther of the Yellagiri Hills A cattle-lifting panther turns man-eater when wounded by a local man's gunshot, and Kenneth Anderson heads to the Yellagiri Hills to investigate. Over the course of many weeks he returns to the Yellagiri Hills and sits up over goat and donkey baits awaiting a successful shot. On a few occasions the panther charges at Anderson, and on one such charge Anderson successfully gets