Accomplished art direction, drawings and animation create a world that has magnificent palaces, fearless warriors, proud princesses, vast landscapes, regal characters and violent battles.

After years of watching embarrassingly bad animated junk, this one comes as a lovely surprise. And for that it needs to be applauded.

Even though the title character vaguely resembles Disney's Tarzan, nobody is going to mistake the less-than-state-of-the-art, computer-game-style 2-D animation for the work of the American parent, much less its Pixar subsidiary.

The boldest and most effective Hollywood/Bollywood meeting yet, taking the better aspects of both filmmaking schools and mixing them into something fresh and unique.