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Indian-American Neel Sethi to play Mowgli in Disney's 'Jungle Book' TOI

Nearly 75 years ago, Hollywood came all the way to Mysore to discover Sabu Dastagir, a teenage son of a mahaut (elephant trainer) from Mysore, to play a series of Indian characters in western movies, including the prized role of Mowgli in Zoltan Korda's version of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, ostensibly making him the first Indian actor in the west.