Jungle (2000 film)

Jungle
Movie poster
Directed byRam Gopal Varma
Written byJaideep Sahni
Produced byRam Gopal Varma
StarringSunil Shetty
Fardeen Khan
Urmila Matondkar
Makrand Deshpande
Sushant Singh
Himanshu Malik
CinematographyVijay Kumar Arora
Edited byChandan Arora
Music bySandeep Chowta
Release date
  • 14 July 2000 (2000-07-14)
Running time
153 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Budgetest. ₹4.75 crore[1]
Box officeest. ₹14.34 crore[1]

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.[2] 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.

  1. ^ a b "Jungle – Movie". Box Office India. Retrieved 26 July 2016.
  2. ^ "Jungle 2000". Bollywoodhungama.com. Retrieved 27 June 2021.