The Jungle Book 22003

[Indian music playing]

Ranjan:
Hooray, Mowgli!

Shanti:
Shh! Ranjan, hush. It's starting.

Ranjan's Father:
[laughs] Come, children. [Ranjan chuckles] Come watch. [to Mowgli] Mowgli, tell us your story.

[Fire goes on]

Mowgli:
I never knew where I came from, but I always knew where I belonged. [Title card, The Jungle Book 2] This is me and Bagheera, the panther who found me in the jungle. He's a good friend of mine, but my best friend of all was good old Papa Bear.

Shanti:
A bear?!

Mowgli:
Man. We had some crazy times together. And when the monkeys grabbed me things got really crazy.

Ranjan:
Monkey! Go, Papa Bear!

Mowgli:
Then I came face to face with the meanest, scariest tiger in the whole jungle, Shere Khan.

Ranjan:
[roaring] You stay away from Mowgli, you mean old tiger... or I'll tie some fire to your tail and burn your butt! Yaah! [rips the blanket]

Ranjan's Mother:
Ranjan!

[Mowgli looked up with the puppet show was finished]

Ranjan:
Whoa! Uhh!

Ranjan:
[muffled roaring]

[Shanti giggles, and Ranjan's Father laughing at Ranjan]

Ranjan's Mother:
Oh, Ranjan.

Ranjan:
I got him, Mowgli! Did you see? I got him.

Mowgli:
You sure did, Ranjan... but it's gonna be kind of hard to finish the story now.

Ranjan:
But we all know how it ends. Shanti blinks her big beautiful brown eyes at you, and you follow her into our village.

Shanti:
I did not.

Mowgli:
Did so.

Shanti:
Something was in my eye.

Mowgli:
Both of them?

Shanti:
Well, you were so ugly you made my eyes water.

Mowgli:
Well, you...

Ranjan's Father:
Ha, ha! Now, now. We give thanks for Shanti's beautiful brown eyes. Without them, Mowgli would never have found his way into our lives. Come to think of it, you used the same trick on me.

Ranjan's Mother:
And you still fall for it.

[They happily laughing]

Shanti's Mother:
Thank you for a wonderful story, Mowgli.

Shanti:
Goodnight, Mowgli. [she got beautiful blinking eyelashes at Mowgli]

Mowgli:
Night, Shanti. Watch out for Shere Khan on your way home.

Shanti:
You and your stories. Everyone know tigers don't come into the village.

Ranjan:
[roars] Tigers go wherever they want!

Shanti:
Aah!

Shanti's Mother:
Ooh! [chuckles] Goodnight, boys.

[Boys laughing]

Mowgli:
Tomorrow's gonna be so great.

Ranjan's Mother:
What happens tomorrow?

Ranjan:
Um...

Mowgli and Ranjan:
Nothing.

Ranjan's Mother:
Aha. Well, then, you will need plenty of rest...for doing nothing tomorrow. Off to bed.

Ranjan:
[yawns] Ah, we never get to stay up late.

Ranjan's Father:
[picking Ranjan up] Ha, ha! Even wild beasts need their sleep. [Ranjan roaring at his Father] Oh, help! Ferocious tiger!

[Parents laughing]

Ranjan's Mother:
Ah, goodnight, my little wild thing. [kisses Ranjan's head]

Ranjan's Father:
[hugging Mowgli with his chest] Goodnight, Mowgli. Happy dreams.

Mowgli:
Um, goodnight...sir.

Ranjan:
Why do you always call him "Sir"? His name's "Pop".

[Ranjan's Father put his fire and fire pit on the lid and cover it, and fade to black.]