One of my intellectual cousin drag me to see new Disneynature movie "African Cats". It is an amazingly true story captured via camera over 20 years in Maasai Mara national park of Kenya! It is the story of 3 families.
1. Sita is a single mother Cheetah raising 5 cubs, feeding and protecting them alone from other beasts and bullies. She loses 2 of her cubs to deadly Hyenas but raises other 3 with all skills to survive in wild world of jungle. (Sounds human?)
2. Tribe of 'Pride' - story of Laila and her beloved daughter Mara. 'Pride' consist of a male lion called Fang, his six wives/lionesses and their cubs. Laila is the strongest and most skillfull hunter. Fang is a mean, coward and a selfish lion who abondon his family in the trying time. Laila tried her best to keep pride intact but due to injuries and old age leave Mara to her sister named Malaika before dying.(Again sounds human?)
3. Very strong lion Kali and his 4 sons who live on the other side of river and wants to dethrone Fang. They regularly bully Sita and her cubs too.
Climax and end comes when Kali and sons attack Fang. He runs away leaving his family at the mercy of Kalis. 5 lionesses loses fight and becomes kali wives. Mara loses her aunt and cousins during fight. She is unskillful and lost without her mother among wild beasts. Finally she learns her skills on her own and at end reunite with her family. Movie ends as Sita teaches the last skill of survival to her cubs before leaving to lead a solitary life. (Sounds human?)
It is all about motherly instinct of protecting cubs in wild wild jungle and making sure they learn to survive on their own. Film is narrated in impressive voice of no one else but Samuel L. Jackson.
Trailer here
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