Saibal Chatterjee writing for NDTV rates the film with one and a half stars out of five and says, "Jammwal is about the only bright spot in a pulpy action-adventure film." Renuka Vyavahare of Times Of India gives three and half stars out of five and says, "Watch Junglee for its spellbinding action, cute elephants and gorgeous jungles. Reception Critical response Īs of August 2020, 40% of the ten reviews compiled by Rotten Tomatoes are positive, with an average rating of 4.67/10. The film was made available as video on demand through Hotstar on. Few scenes were also shot in the Jungles of Odisha and West Bengal.
The scenes involving elephants were shot in the presence of Thai crew members.
Out of 100, four elephants were selected for the film after scouting in India and Sri Lanka. The principal photography of the film began on 5 December 2017 and was finished in the summer of 2018. While talking about his first experience directing an Indian film, Russell said that he wanted to make a film "that is true to India, but uses the music, dance and the wonderful artists in Bollywood to tell a universal story about returning to the natural world". With his prior experience as a stuntman, Jammwal performed his own stunts for the film, which impressed Russell. As a Kalaripayattu practitioner, he grew up interacting with animals. His upbringing in Kerala and his background in the Indian martial art of Kalaripayattu helped him prepare for the role. Jammwal performs an animal flow style of combat for the film. However, the film later went to American director Chuck Russell, who is known for directing The Mask (1994), Eraser (1996) and The Scorpion King (2002). In September 2016, it was announced that Jammwal will star as a veterinary doctor in Rohan Sippy's film titled Junglee which will "mirror a unique friendship between man and an animal." Sippy said that the idea of the film came to him after seeing the classic 1971 Salim–Javed film Haathi Mere Saathi, though it also has some similarities with Tom-Yum-Goong. When Raj receives a call from his office, he replies that it will be a while before he is back at work because 'Things have gotten a bit wild out here!' Didi's child Asha is also shown to Meera's millions of followers. Three months later, Dipankar Nair's last message is shown, in which he tells that elephants are killed every 15 minutes for their tusks, and that we can still stop that by not buying products made of ivory. Whereas inside, Didi is about to deliver her baby. Raj attacks Keshav and makes him nearly fainted, and goes to save the others, in that Keshav picks up his gun, but Gajja Guru and Didi arrive, in which Didi kills Keshav. He saves Shankara, and there Meera and Jayesh(another childhood friend of Raj) also arrive. Raj attacks the mansion, and kills all bodyguards and hunters. Raj, with a dead hunter's phone, gets to know that the buyers are in Paradip, where Shankara is also kept. Gajja Guru, Raj's teacher, treats Raj, with Meera.
The hunters also capture Shankara, while Meera captures all this. They injure Raj badly, but kill Dev, who in turn, was in a bid to save Raj. Dev and Raj fight, after which the hunters come. Dev, Raj's best friend, is also revealed to be with the hunters. Raj also reveals to them that the Inspector who framed him for being with hunters, is one of that group who supports elephant's tusk smuggling. But he still fights them all, and frees himself after Didi pulls the window out with Shankara, Raj's childhood friend, as her mahout, with Meera, a reporter who has come with Raj to write an article on the elephant sanctuary. After being taken into the prison, he, whose hands are still banded. The cops arrive at the funeral of Dipankar and falsely implicate him of being with hunters and also frame Raj for it. Keshav kills Bhola for his tusks and also Dipankar who tries to save him. Keshav, a hunter, has an eye on huge tusks of Bhola which could fetch good money. His son Raj, a veterinarian in Mumbai, arrives for the 10th anniversary of his mother's death and visits with Bhola and Didi, his elephant playmates when he was a child. Dipankar Nair runs an Elephant sanctuary but things have turned bad as hunters are frequently killing Elephants for their tusks.
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