Synopsis :
Set in 1930s French Indochina, two tigers are separated as cubs after the ancient temple where they live is disturbed by Aidan McRory who intends to steal and sell the ancient statues.
Two tiger cubs are playing when one (later named Sangha) comes upon a young civet. Sangha chases the civet into its burrow and the mother civet appears and chases Sangha up a tree. The other tiger cub (later named Kumal) appears and chases the mother civet away. Gunshots are heard, and the tigress arrives to protect the cubs. She picks Sangha up and runs for safety. Kumal follows, but can’t keep up and falls behind. The cubs’ father appears, but the men have caught up with them and he is shot dead by McRory.
McRory is an unscrupulous explorer, big-game hunter and temple looter. He discovers Kumal and befriends him, but McRory is arrested for stealing from the ancient temple and Kumal is kept by the chief in the Cambodian village where McRory had been staying. The chief then sells Kumal to a circus where he is to be the star attraction.
Sangha remains in the jungle with his mother, but both are soon trapped by McRory as game for a vain Khmer prince to hunt. The mother is shot in the ear and thought to be dead before she jumps up and runs off. Sangha is discovered by young Raoul, son of the French administrator, Normandin, and becomes the child’s pet.
Kumal is trained by cruel circus ringmaster Zerbino to do tricks, such as jumping through a flaming hoop, while Sangha in a fright seriously hurts Raoul’s dog and, considered too wild to remain in the French household, is made a part of the prince’s palace menagerie.
The prince then decides to hold a festival in which a battle between two great beasts – the brother tigers – will be the centerpiece.
When placed in the cage before the audience, the two brothers do not immediately recognise each other, and Kumal is afraid to fight. However, when the brothers finally recognise each other they begin to play together instead of fighting, much to the annoyance of the audience and the owners. The trainer attempts to antagonise the tigers into fighting, but as he opens the cage, the tigers escape, managing to frighten the trainers and the audience into the cage themselves.
The two tigers escape, and McRory is determined to hunt them down. After Kumal showing Sangha how to jump through fire to escape, McRory and Raoul find them. However, as McRory takes aim at Sangha, Kumal appears, and demonstrates that he remembers the sweets McRory used to give him. McRory puts down his gun and vows never to hunt again.
The two brothers make their way back to their temple home in the jungle, and a third tiger answers their roar.
Starring :
Guy Pearce
Freddie Highmore
Jean-Claude Dreyfus
Director :
Jean-Jacques Annaud
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