Monkeys of Mumbai: The Legend of Raj and Deepu

Monkeys of Mumbai is an upcoming computer-animated musical fantasy film directed by Jay Chandrasekhar and written by Gurinder Chadha and Matthew Fogel. The film was fast-tracking a Bollywood-styled musical adaptation of The Ramayana, but told through the point of view of its monkeys. It would have follow two common monkeys who become unlikely heroes in a last ditch effort to stop an ancient, thought-to-be-mythical demon from conquering the world. A. R. Rahman were attached to compose the songs and score since Indian-language British drama film Slumdog Millionaire. Karan Soni, Dev Patel and Freida Pinto were in talks to join the cast. distributed by Universal Pictures under the DreamWorks Animation imprint. Its originally produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies had no involvement.

Voice cast

 * Karan Soni as Makada
 * Dev Patel as Bandar
 * Freida Pinto as Priya
 * Thomas Middleditch as Deepu
 * Kevin Hart as Raj
 * Lea Michele as Pinki
 * Deepka Padukone as Chandani
 * Vince Vaughn
 * Chris Pratt
 * Alfred Molina
 * Tobey Maguire
 * Adam Sandler
 * Tania Gunadi
 * Nathan Lane
 * Keith David
 * Woody Harrelson
 * Mena Massoud
 * Angelina Jolie
 * Marc Maron
 * Chloe Bennet
 * David Cross
 * John Krasinski
 * Rosalie Chiang
 * Selena Gomez
 * Demi Lovato
 * George Lopez
 * Benicio del Toro
 * Will Smith
 * Harvey Guillén
 * Danny Trejo
 * Tom Hanks
 * Wallace Shawn
 * Allison Janney

Production
By January 2011, DreamWorks was fast-tracking a Bollywood-styled musical adaptation of the Ramayana, but told through the point of view of its monkeys.

Music
A. R. Rahman was announced to compose the musical score since Slumdog Millionaire.

Animation
DNEG Animation would take over animation with it's London facility handling most of the production.