Return of the Jungle: Vaibhav Kumaresh's 15-Year Bet on an India Without Gods or Minions

There is a formula in Indian animation now, and everyone in the industry can recite it: put gods on the poster and the theatres fill themselves. Return of the Jungle is a film built, almost stubbornly, against that formula. No avatars, no borrowed Hollywood faces. Just a nine-year-old boy, the class bully, and a grandfather on a charpai who fights the battle the only way grandfathers know how: with a story.