When a young human “cub” is left orphaned in the jungle, a good-natures black panther, Bagheera ( Ben Kingsley) , takes pity on the boy – and delivers the child into the protection of a local wolf pack.
The human cub, named Mowgli ( Neel Sethi) , is raised as a member of the den – and the wolves, along with other animals in the jungle, grow to love and accept the boy as one of their own.
With his biological family long gone, Mowgli has little interest in leaving the jungle to join a human village and, instead, has come to live by the etiquette and codes of his animal friends – even hiding a talent for crafting inventions and tools in order to fit in.
