dreamworks continues on to be just an absolute goldmine of cancelled productions it's honestly impressive the amount of glimmering scrap this company has amassed in the span of like three years with the company very much having a clear and divisive direction these days reaching this point meant that sacrifices had to be made and almost all of those sacrifices seem to be some of the most interesting concepts from an animation studio of late we've lost me in my shadow bureau of other worldly operations larry kins and now this monkeys of mumbai also known as bollywood superstar monkey what a title and mumbai musical that sucks still bollywood superstar reminds me of super robot monkey team hyper force go yes i remember all of that so monkeys of mumbai was set to be a computer animated musical fantasy adventure film to be developed by dreamworks and distributed by NUMBER_TOKENth century studios it was announced back a little earlier than the others in january NUMBER_TOKEN as a fast-tracking bollywood-styled musical adaptation of the ramayana which is one of the largest epics in ancient literature and a tale of hinduism all about a prince saving his wife from the clutches of an evil king with the help of an army of monkeys there's also of course some godly deity stuff throughout as well anyway this dreamworks project was set to be that tale but told through the point of view of its monkeys it would have followed two common street monkeys who become unlikely heroes in a last-ditch effort to stop an ancient thought to be mythical demon from conqueror in the world and since this was set to be a musical two particular men were attached on to compose the song and score one stephen schwartz and classic disneyland working with the music department on pocahontas the hunchback of notre dame enchanted and with dreamworks in the prince of egypt for lyrics and original songs and nowadays doing dis enchanted as well as composing from a.r rahman an absolutely perfect choice considering their background in all things indian i mean this guy was the composer for the slumdog millionaire and looking at his other works i might not recognize them myself but i can see this is exactly what we'd be looking for i can't imagine the impact that would have been felt from a good western bollywood movie on the big screen especially an animated one targeted to kids i mean the influences there could have been massive my only exposure to bollywood is through corridor crew reactions so i'm all for representative styles being readily produced anyway a slightly more poignant plot synopsis goes like this monkeys of mumbai tells the story of two orphaned monkey brothers raj and deepu who live a hard scrabble life on the streets of mumbai raj is majorly disillusioned with the role that life has dealt him he is pragmatic and puts his nose to the grindstone to make sure his brother doesn't feel the hardship of being cast aside deepu on the other hand is the ultimate optimist and believes that one day street monkeys scavengers that litter the streets will one day soon discover their inner hanuman the indian deity that was once revered by all and rise to their forgotten glory that's how they cast through life until a chance encounter plunges them into
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