Christian Bale and Andy Serkis in Mumbai

Academy Award-winning star Christian Bale, who famously essayed Batman, is in Mumbai with actor-director Andy Serkis for the premiere of their much-awaited forthcoming film actor-director of Mowgli: Legend Of the Jungle.

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Actress Frieda Pinto and Indian-American child actor Rohan Chand are here too to promote the movie, which explores the darker side of author Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book. Mowgli..., to be released on streaming giant Netflix on December 7, is based on the 19th century tale of a boy who grew up in the jungles of India with animals.

Its India connect makes the country “perfect” for the premiere, which will be held on Sunday at the Yash Raj Films studio, Serkis said. Serkis, who has voiced the free-spirited bear named Baloo in the upcoming film, took to Instagram to share some updates.

“Junket in Mumbai,” he wrote alongside a photograph in which he is posing in front of the film’s poster.

The film is set for theatrical release in Los Angeles and London on November 29.

—IANS