Maneating Leopard of Rudraprayag-Movie

[NILESH THAKUR]

Hello everybody,
Here is the link for the movie Maneater of Rudraprayag,it is not exactly as mentioned in the book by Corbett but intresting.
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Enjoy,
Nilesh P Thakur

[xl_target]

Nilesh,
Thanks for the link.
I look forward to watching it when I get home tonight.

[mercury]

you wonder if the producer or any one associated with the movie had ever read the book.

critics thrashed the movie...and rightly so.

not too sure, but i think Jim Corbetts family tried to stop the release of the movie.

[xl_target]

Thanks again Nilesh.
I watched the movie and by itselfit wasn't bad. Of course, it was nothing like the book and Jim Corbett in a romance with Ibbotsen's wife...? Hmm! Why do they have to try and add romance to every movie.
What struck me most of all was Jim leaving his rifle behind. Ummm! No.. would never have happened.

I know in later years that he preferred the camera but I don't think he would have left any of his rifles behind anywhere.

[NILESH THAKUR]

Hello xl_target
First of all Thank you very much,i read all the books of Corbett and even CARPET SHAHIB and even on internet that Corbett took all his guns along with him to Africa including .275 and 450/400 and also had seen on a news channel that Corbett has gifted a Muzzel loader to Trilok Singh who is no more ,the gun is now owned by his wife.Some people say he had two .275 rifle ?.Why would he buy a rifle of same caliber when their was lot of options available.

[Bespoke]

I saw that movie couple of years ago and its interesting and has a good cast but does not come anywhere close to real deal.

There was a movie from IMAX a little better but very beautiful photography.

The rifles which he mentions in his book are .500 BPE,.450/400 Jeffery,.275 Westley richards,.275 Rigby (Presented to him for shooting maneater of Champawat)Shotguns he mentioned a 12 bore and 20 bore in his books.

At times guns pop up in India claiming to be his but no one could put forward a trustworthy proof of their claims.

I posted a thread couple of years ago on NE about his guns here is the link.
http://forums.nitroexpress.com/showflat ... ber=168254

[TC]

This Movie and a few more, Gandhi and Passage to India for example, are regularly repeated by a channel (cant remember which one).
I saw this at least twice on TV and felt exactly what XL has said .... difficult to digest the love quotient

TC

[NILESH THAKUR]

In his book (The Temple Tiger) he has mentioned that he bought 275 by Westly Richards from Manton Calcutta,In the book Carpet Sahib it has mentioned that the rifle was gifted by SirJohn Hewett and on the left side of butt a silver plate incorrectly inscribes Corbett's name-
http://s771.photobucket.com/albums/xx35 ... plaque.jpg
i have not read any where in his book that a rifle was gifted to him by Sir John Hewett and it has mentioned that it had rimmed cartridge may be it was 7x57R rather than 7x57 Mauser which is rimless and the 450/400 is gifted by the same person i dint find any where in the book.
http://s771.photobucket.com/albums/xx35 ... titled.jpg could you guys put some more light on it.

Nilesh Thakur

[captrakshitsharma]

Nice viewing.... Thanks for posting.... Our friend Dr. Prashant would enjoy this one... He is following Carpet Sahib's foot steps....

[marksman]

Strangely Corbett is shown shooting the gun from his left shoulder in this movie. Didn't know he was a South Paw. Well if at all he was,no one including him ever mentioned it.
Marksman

[prashantsingh]

Strangely Corbett is shown shooting the gun from his left shoulder in this movie.
Marksman

+ 1
Corbett was a right hander.
He sported a thick mooch and was not clean shaven as shown in the documentary.

[Vassili Zaitsev]

I agree and didn't enjoyed the movie much...and there are many unwanted romance factor in this which is not required at all.
I wonder why there are no good movie directors picked any of such stories to make any full length movies?
I loved watching "The Ghost and the darkness" many times..

[kasimpatel]

here jim's rifles.
http://www.rugerforum.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=72052

[xl_target]

Kasimpatel,
That post was an excellent find.

If I had Jim Corbett's rifle, I would want to say that I shot game with it too.
I'd be willing to bet that Elmer used Jim's rifle, at least once.

[ckkalyan]

Many thanks for sharing the link NILESH THAKUR,

Quite enjoyed the movie - perhaps I was on another plane?!

Whatever poetic licence the director employed, the movie as a whole was interesting; not true to fact or records but, interesting nevertheless.

* Left Handed or Right - perhaps the actor playing the part of Corbett was left handed and wanted to portray his weapon skills more naturally with his south paw?

* Romantic liaisons - seemed to me more like the lady wanting to communicate with 'someone' desperately in a land where she could not talk to anybody aside form her husband; also the movie did not depict any fruition of romance - just a dalliance born out of this loneliness, perchance? JC still came away in the end, the gentleman that he probably was! So was his friend - very British to the end.

* I do not think this was a true rendering of JC's life and times at that point - Man-eater of Rudraprayag - simply an idea based on the life and times of JC, that was made into a movie.

* I admired the few twists about the mystic and supernatural that the director wove in to spice up some scenes

* In the goodbye scene I particularly liked the way the script writer played with the title of JC used by the lady, Captain an then again as Jim - nice. Depicted mixed feelings of admiration of different parts of the same man.

Just my personal observations.

Again, thanks for sharing...