The amusingly bad film is named Jungle Diper Tarzan, directed by Shujar Rahman Shuja and inspired by both the Miles O’Keeffe Tarzan the Apeman film and Bollywood’s Adventures of Tarzan, as well as the Zimbo movies of decades past.
Its main stars are Rony and Poly as a discount Tarzan and Ruby Shetty/Jane Parker pair. Also starring are Mehedi, Jhumka, Arbaz, Shimana, Afjal (Afzal), Beauty, Munni, Shiba Shanu (born 1974) and Miju Ahmed (1952-2017) as various other characters.
Is it a ripoff of the Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan films? It’s more likely that Disney’s Tarzan has made a much bigger impact on the movie’s making than either the Miles O’Keeffe movie, the Johnny Weissmuller films which inspired it or their Bollywood equivalent.
The story supposedly began in 1932, when a pair of scientists were embarking on a risky East African adventure for nearly a year, in order to check if there are animals to be photographed by them. To their inevitable chagrin, they violated the rules of a small kingdom peopled by stereotypical Safari natives, who drove the mum off to smithereens. As a result, such a situation ensured that their toddler son would be raised by both monkeys and elephants, becoming the definitive Bangla Tarzan in the process.
21 years later, Bangla Tarzan finally becomes an adult who enjoys his life with Bangla Tantor and his family in a poorly disguised stand in for the Ugandan Bwindi jungle. Meanwhile, Bangla James Parker spoke to his daughter about her ex-mobster mother’s passing as a recluse. She understandably cried with tears of sadness.
A day later, Bangla Ruby Shetty, Bangla Hazel Strong, Bangla Esmeralda, and Bangla James Parker embark on a jungle expedition to find a bunch of treasures owned by both heroic and villainous natives alike, only to see Tarzan for the first time.
Here comes the Bangla discount knockoff of William Cecil Clayton, but he’s more of a comic relief like his Hollywood counterpart Mr. Feathers. Along with Bangla Hazel and Bangla Esmeralda, Bangla Mr. Feathers joins in to annoy the small kingdom’s hideously horrible ruler at all costs. Later on, Bangla Tarzan meets a Harry Holt expy, who happens to be a hard hitting foil trying to attack him off until something worse comes out. A woman allied to him isn’t pleased about it and tries to end their arguments about who is the best dude for her.
Hmm, who cares if the ruler of a small kingdom was estranged from his own slightly more sympathetic ex-ally for so long? Let’s introduce the knockoff Rabba Kegga, who is a half blind pirate with an eyepatch. Bangla Rabba Kegga pesters around Bangla Mbonga about who will become their kingdom’s next ruler. Bangla Mbonga isn’t amused and threatens him to leave his palace permanently, even as Bangla Mbonga’s son Bangla Kulonga seems to become a potential ruler, if not for his sheltered and messed up upbringing. Cue the hokey love song!
Thus, more cat fights and arguments will follow until the Bangla Rabba Kegga gets arrested by the colonial police! The main villain’s arrest results in all of them surviving. Not only is Bangla Tarzan reuniting with his own birth dad thanks to Bangla Tantor’s efforts, but he and Bangla Ruby ultimately win each other’s love for the better.
This film is the most in name only of any unofficial Tarzan film adaptation! In fact, it’s so amusingly bad that it made its own (end of the 20th Century) inspirations look like The Simpsons in comparison.
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