Mowgli (2016)

:This page is about the incarnation of Mowgli from the 2016 movie. The mainstream version can be found here: Mowgli (Disney).
Mowgli is the main protagonist of the 2016 of and its upcoming sequel. He is a young man-cub who lost his father at an early age to the tiger Shere Khan. Afterwards, he was found by Bagheera and adopted by a wolf pack.
He is played by newcomer child actor Neel Sethi.
==History==
===The Jungle Book===
As a child, Mowgli was orphaned when the wicked tiger Shere Khan murdered his father. Left without a family, he found himself under the care of the panther Bagheera, who turned him over to the wolves, led by Akela and Raksha. The pack became his family.
Mowgli is first shown when running with some pups including his surrogate brother Gray. He climbs up some trees as he playfully chases them, but Bagheera stops him, telling him if he can't run with the pack, he'll wind up as predator food. Feeling like a failure, Mowgli tries to fit in the pack.
One day, during the dry season, Mowgli and the wolves go down to a lake by the Truce Rock to drink water. Mowgli has his own way of doing it, although most other animals think his tricks are strange. Just then, Shere Khan arrives and, sensing Mowgli, tells the wolves that man is forbidden. Shere Khan also personally has a deep hatred for humans due to having his face burned and scarred by one of them. While he doesn’t attack due to the water truce, he vows to find the boy and kill him when the truce is over.
Sure enough, the rain falls and the truce is broken. Many of the wolves decide it is time for Mowgli to go to the Man-village. Only Raksha, the wolf mother, and the pups want Mowgli to stay. Mowgli agrees to leave the pack due to not wanting them to be harmed by the fearsome tiger. Raksha, lets Mowgli go, but not before telling him he will always be her son.
Mowgli is reluctant to go the the Man-village. While walking through a herd of buffalo, Bagheera tries to tell him he is in danger. Mowgli doesn't believe him, but Shere Khan suddenly attacks. While Bagheera holds off Shere Khan, the boy jumps over a ravine and hitches a ride on buffalo to safety, forcing Shere Khan to give up his attack.. Meanwhile, baiting the wolves with a false truce, Shere Khan kills Akela and takes over the pack. He declares that until Mowgli is his, he will have control of the pack and their land.
Mowgli finds himself lost in the jungle. He picks some fruit to eat and offers one to a mongoose, but several others swipe his snack. Mowgli chases them and runs into Kaa, the snake, who reveals the truth about the Man-cub's past and history with Shere Khan and is about to swallow him when Baloo, a bear, overpowers her and saves Mowgli.
Baloo convinces Mowgli to help him fetch honey for hibernation. The two of them help each other and Baloo reluctantly promises the boy he'll take him to the Man-village by Winter if he doesn’t like living with him. The two of them become friends, and the bear praises Mowgli's "tricks," like creating a honey stack and saving a baby elephant from a pit.
After reuniting with Bagheera, although ecstatic to see his mentor alive, Mowgli refuses to go to the Man-Village, wanting to stay with Baloo. Baloo also wants Mowgli to stay with him. But Bagheera informs Baloo that Mowgli is being hunted by Shere Khan and that the tiger has killed Akela and will not stop until he has Mowgli in his grasp. Bagheera convinces Baloo to take Mowgli to the Man-village and, in a bid to do the right thing, the bear lies and tells Mowgli he doesn't want him around anymore. His feelings hurt, Mowgli goes up into a tree, where a gang of monkeys, the Bandar-log, kidnap him and take him to their temple. He is brought before their monarch, King Louie, who convinces Mowgli to stay with him, as long as he gives him the the "Red Flower," or fire. However King Louie becomes hostile and aggressive when he thinks Mowgli is refusing to give Louie the “Red Flower”. Baloo and Bagheera arrive to help Mowgli. While Baloo distracts the Bandar-log, Bagheera leads Mowgli away. Suddenly, one of King Louie's thugs sounds an alarm and the huge ape chases the Man-cub while his henchmen attack Baloo and Bagheera, who fight them off. King Louie reveals to Mowgli that Shere Khan murdered Akela. The boy doesn't believe him and escapes while the temple collapses on the ape king.
After a narrow escape, Baloo and Bagheera unveil that indeed, Akela had been killed. Mowgli knows he must avenge his father's death and grabs up a torch. As he runs through the jungle, sparks land on the grass, setting the jungle on fire. Mowgli challenges Shere Khan to a fight and the evil tiger emerges, ready to attack the boy. Mowgli prepares to burn Shere Khan with the red flower, but tosses the torch into the water and rallies the animals. Enraged, the tiger lunges and Baloo fights him off. Encouraged by Bagheera, Mowgli runs into the jungle, with Shere Khan in hot pursuit. He lures him into a dead tree, where Shere Khan prepares to finish him off. Mowgli jumps to safety on a swing. But as soon as Shere Khan lands on a branch, it snaps under his weight, causing the villain to plunge to his death. Aided by the elephants and animals, Mowgli builds a dam and water douses the fire, putting an end to Shere Khan's reign of terror once and for all.
In the end, Mowgli stays in the jungle and lives alongside the animals, his new family.
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