The 1995 springtime film is known as Boner Raja Tarzan, aka Tarzan, King of the Forest. Directed by the little known Iftekhar Jahan, Boner Raja Tarzan takes some elements from both the Tarzan books and the Zimbo movies, as well as Bollywood’s own Adventures of Tarzan and Tollywood’s Adavi Donga.
The main stars are actor-politician Danny Sidak as the first Bangla Tarzan and veteran actress Nuton (Nutan) as Bangla Jane Porter. Famed actors Bapparaj (born 1963) and the late Jumbo (1944-2004) starred as recurring characters too.
Is it a ripoff of Greystoke? Not quite a full on ripoff, but it is ballsy enough to feature a Tarzan vs leopard fight more faithfully accurate to the books than the latter film has to offer. Frankly, it also has some elements of Shotaro Ishinomori’s Ryu the Cave Boy telephoned in!
The story supposedly began in 1951, when two scientists and their son were on an adventurous Bangla jungle expedition for a few months, only to be driven off by the first natives they’ve seen because they violated their village’s rules, resulting in the poor toddler finding out the hard way that his mother was a war veteran like his father, while a notorious bandit apeman whom I dubbed Bangla Kerchak kidnapped him away. Meanwhile, a bunch of local elephants found him crying alone and took him into their jungle, becoming a found family in the process.
Years later, a young Bangla Tarzan learned how to do a wild yell with the help of the first Bangla Tantor’s own mother. She sweetly rewarded him with a big hug, knowing that he’ll become a grown man within over a decade.
Let’s flash forward into Bangla Tarzan’s own adulthood in 1971, starting with him swinging into his own childhood treehouse with a sloppy old MGM Tarzan yell! A bunch of explorers, including the Bangla Jane Porter and her dad, see him for the first time.
Despite their disapproval, Bangla Jane steadily becomes his own girlfriend while living with him in a cooler treehouse nearby. Meanwhile, a bunch of stereotypical village misfits led by a notorious Nemone expy plan a battle against both the hero and the explorers. Otherwise, the first Bangla Tarzan finally revisits the city of his birth, as he unexpectedly meets a mob of cool looking gangsters looking for a worthy opponent. Meanwhile, A lonely explorer was harassed by stereotypical Safari natives aided by the Nemone expy, while Bangla Kerchak comes back to kidnap a local dude out of nowhere.
Finally, Bangla Tarzan reunites with his own birth mummy despite the legal Rut. Now Knowing that Bangla Jane Porter will try to defend herself from the Apeman who kidnapped him decades back, he has to hijack a helicopter and punches him to smithereens, resulting in him and his birth mother parting their own ways peacefully while on the process of becoming a husband to his own Jane.
This film is so narmy and janky, it’s more like a morbid comedy of manners which will make a few foreign nerds laugh out loud! It’s also a more modest non-PR0N alternative to the rather bodacious league of fellow adults only Bollywood Tarzan mockbusters from the previous decades and beyond.
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