'The Jungle Book' beats 'Kapoor and Sons', 'Neerja' in a week at the box-officeKolkata, Apr 16(AZINS) The Jungle Book has reportedly crushed hit movies like Kapoor and Sons and Neerja within a week at the box office in India.

The collection of Jon Favreau's 3D live-animation adventure fantasy film have gone up to Rs. 73.50 crore net with the collections on Thursday beating all other days to go up to the Rs 11 crore mark.

In fact, The Jungle Book is on its way to be the first Hollywood release to cross Rs 100 crore net and to be the highest grossing Hollywood movie in India, ever. Both The Jungle Book and Kapoor and Sons were released on 1500 screens while Neerja was 1000 plus but got a bigger advantage of tax-free quite early.

Disney's reboot of its 1967 The Jungle Book animated musical is hit cinema screens worldwide on April 8, but the team behind the live-action story already say they are talking about a sequel. Directed by Jon Favreau, the new movie brings to life Rudyard Kipling's classic stories about young boy Mowgli, who was raised by wolves in the jungle and whose life is threatened by a bloodthirsty tiger.

Hollywood names Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley, Scarlett Johansson, Lupita Nyong'o and Idris Elba lend their voices as bear Baloo, panther Bagheera, snake Kaa, wolf mother Raksha and tiger Shere Khan respectively while newcomer Neel Sethi plays Mowgli.

"Sure we would love to do a sequel. We've been talking about it for months," Favreau told Reuters at the film's European premiere in London. "When a movie is this big of a production everybody kinda waits to see how the audiences receive it. If it does well I'm sure we'll figure out a way to do more chapters of it. But it's certainly something I would love to be involved with."