It’s been 123 years since The Jungle Book first appeared. We take you through its many versions
In 1893, Mowgli made his first appearance in In The Rukh, a short story in Many Inventions, a collection of Rudyard Kipling’s work. Here, Mowgli is a young man, no longer with his friends in the jungle – he gets a job as a forest ranger, marries a Muslim girl, and the wolves babysit his child.
Sabu Dastagir, who played Mowgli, became the first Indian film star on the international stage In the Russia-produced Adventures of Maugli Mowgli is a tall-strapping Tarzan-like Russian lookalike.