{"id":13457,"date":"2016-04-12T14:22:49","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T13:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=13457"},"modified":"2016-04-12T14:26:38","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T13:26:38","slug":"win-a-pair-of-tickets-to-the-jungle-book-screening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/12\/win-a-pair-of-tickets-to-the-jungle-book-screening\/","title":{"rendered":"Win a Pair of Tickets to The Jungle Book Screening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Jungle_book-Comp.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13459\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13459 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Jungle_book-Comp.jpg\" alt=\"Jungle_book Comp\" width=\"380\" height=\"828\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Jungle_book-Comp.jpg 380w, https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Jungle_book-Comp-138x300.jpg 138w, https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Jungle_book-Comp-193x420.jpg 193w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>A WILD EPIC ADVENTURE BACK TO THE JUNGLE WITH MOWGLI AND FRIENDS<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cThe Jungle Book\u201d<\/em><\/strong><em> is an all-new live-action epic adventure about Mowgli (newcomer <strong>Neel Sethi<\/strong>), a man-cub raised in the jungle by a family of wolves, who embarks on a captivating journey of self-discovery when he\u2019s forced to abandon the only home he\u2019s ever known. <\/em>Directed by <strong>Jon Favreau<\/strong> (<em>\u201cIron Man\u201d), <\/em>based on Rudyard Kipling\u2019s timeless stories and inspired by Disney\u2019s classic animated film, <em>\u201cThe Jungle Book\u201d <\/em>is an adventure of epic proportions.<\/p>\n<p>As Mowgli finds he is no longer welcome in the jungle, when fearsome tiger Shere Khan (voice of <strong>Idris Elba<\/strong>) &#8211; who bears the scars of Man &#8211; promises to eliminate what he sees as a threat, he is urged to abandon the only home he\u2019s ever known. Mowgli embarks on a captivating journey of self-discovery, guided by panther-turned-stern mentor Bagheera (voice of <strong>Ben Kingsley<\/strong>), and the free-spirited bear Baloo (voice of <strong>Bill Murray<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>Along the way, Mowgli encounters jungle creatures who don\u2019t exactly have his best interests at heart, including Kaa (voice of <strong>Scarlett Johansson<\/strong>), a python whose seductive voice and gaze hypnotizes the man-cub, and the smooth-talking King Louie (voice of <strong>Christopher Walken<\/strong>), who tries to coerce Mowgli into giving up the secret to the elusive and deadly red flower: fire.<\/p>\n<p>The all-star cast also includes <strong>Lupita Nyong&#8217;o<\/strong> as the voice of the fiercely protective mother wolf Raksha, and <strong>Giancarlo Esposito<\/strong> as the voice of wolf pack\u2019s alpha male Akela. <em>\u201cThe Jungle Book\u201d<\/em> seamlessly blends live-action with photorealistic CGI animals and environments, using up-to-the-minute technology and storytelling techniques to immerse audiences in an enchanting and lush world. The wild adventure swings into cinemas in 3D on <strong>15<sup>th<\/sup> April, 2016<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A WILD EPIC ADVENTURE BACK TO THE JUNGLE WITH MOWGLI AND FRIENDS \u201cThe Jungle Book\u201d is an all-new live-action epic adventure about Mowgli (newcomer Neel Sethi), a man-cub raised in the jungle by a family of wolves, who embarks on a captivating journey of self-discovery when he\u2019s forced to abandon the only home he\u2019s ever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,52,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-competitions","category-editors-picks","category-latest","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}