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Jungle (2000)

Jungle poster
Directed by
Ram Gopal Varma
Genre
action film, romance film, thriller film
Country
India
Runtime
2h 33m
Rated
16
Rating
6.4 of 10 from 10 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A group of tourists are taken hostage by a bandit leader and his gang in a forest. A police officer leads an effort to rescue them while some hostages try to survive and escape.

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What happens

Jungle is a 2000 Indian Hindi-language survival thriller film produced and directed by Ram Gopal Varma. The movie is about a group of bandits, led by forest brigand, "Durga Narayan Chaudhary" (Sushant Singh), that hold a bunch of tourists hostage. It stars Suniel Shetty as Shivraj, the head of police, Urmila Matondkar as Anu Malhotra, one of the hostages, and Fardeen Khan as Siddhu, her love interest. The ensemble cast film has received positive reviews upon release and was declared a hit. Jungle received many accolades and nominations, including the Filmfare Award for Best Background Score at the 46th Filmfare Awards. For his performance, Sushant Singh won an IIFA Award and Zee Cine Award for Best Performance in a Negative Role. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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