The film is named Tarzan of the Jungle and was likely released by Golden Mount Pictures in late 1997-early 1998, as a shorter, martial artsy, non-PR0N remake of the Gordon Scott Tarzan films with some bits of Bollywood’s Adventures of Tarzan thrown in, which also doubles as a cash grab on a live action Tarzan tv show which was popular in Canada, most parts of Europe and much of the Tropical Americas.
It stars a cast of 70s-90s Burmese cinema veterans such as Nyi Min Htat, Tin Moe Myint, Kumudyaur Tat, and Kyaukrai Aung Myat as various characters, such as Burmese Tarzan, Burmese Ruby Shetty, Burmese Michael Hauser and Burmese Esmeralda.
Is it a cash grab of a Bollywood movie? Funnily enough, it seems inspired more by both the Ron Ely tv series and its 1990s Mexican French Canadian reboot than by Bollywood’s Adventures of Tarzan.
The plot begins when a spirited young lady named Burmese Ruby and her well meant father, Burmese Professor Shetty, were looking for treasure, but as a part of a crappy expedition led by gangsters. As a result, she was nearly assassinated until a long haired Tarzan took her and her dad in.
Even as a Burmese hoodlum take on Michael Hauser stands over his less antagonistic neighbour, Burmese Esmeralda, and talks about his plan to bring the newfound soulmates into his fellow gangsters’ lair, both Tarzan and Ruby just relax and have fun somewhere.
Mrs Ruby asks Tarzan about a marriage proposal, but he doesn't say about it yet. Three of the gangsters sneak upon the lady and will forcibly touch her without the hero’s own permission. As a result, he fights them with Burmese martial arts! Burmese Esmeralda sometimes interrupts Tarzan’s rather important warning and dares to lure him out of the woods, until he tells her otherwise.
Meanwhile, both are kidnapped by their own thirsty rivals, who are trying to kill them, if not for their sheer shared luck to survive in the monsoonal jungle. Near the end, after all of the gangsters are implied to be arrested by the much more brutal police, Ruby feels so sad about her own dad dying that she’s going to cry so hard. Tarzan just has to calm her down, by telling her that their future marriage will be made possible within a few years or so. She kind of agrees with him, thus the story ends on a bittersweet note.
Hoo boy, being an illegal adaptation simply reveals that it’s one of the worst budgeted unofficial Tarzan movies ever made, even though the writing is itself quite okay for a Mockbuster from a hopelessly pillaged backwater (let alone coming from one of the world’s most corrupt nations). Despite being not so well executed in some parts, its potential as a hidden Mockbuster gem is made obvious by the rather comically serious acting of its cast also saves the movie from being outright horrible, so it deserves to get affectionately referenced by more people outside of its country of origin.
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