Monkey Thieves

Meet the Galta gang, a 60-strong troop of rhesus macaques, as they make their way from their temple home through the streets of Jaipur. The city is like a giant playground for the younger monkeys but danger is always round the corner. Alpha male, Tarak sees an open window as an open invitation for the group to ransack a suburban kitchen.

Kavi is thrown a lifeline and taken to an animal hospital while the rest of the troop hit the streets again in search of food and fun. A raid on the city fruit market seems like easy pickings, until a rival troop appear, led by the meanest macaque in town: Fang.

After the monkey troop launch a raid on a goods cart, the angry owner snaps and calls in the monkey-catcher. A handful of the gang are captured and carted off in the back of his van. The remaining Galta troop, small but spirited, defend their temple home against an invasion of larger langur monkeys.

The captured monkeys are released in the countryside far from their temple home and are completely lost in the forest. The monsoon is late and the food shortage caused by the drought is affecting the monkey troop. Back at the animal sanctuary, Kavi has taken a turn for the worse.

Zamir launches a leadership bid that ends in disaster when a baby is fatally wounded and the pretender to the throne is driven out of the group. The monsoon finally comes, ending the crippling drought and triggering a spectacular celebration. To top it all off, the exiled monkeys finally make it back to the temple and the Galta gang are reunited.

As India's government clamps down on marauding macaques in the capital, Delhi, the troublemaker Zamir steals ice cream from a child, which brings the country's leading monkey catcher racing back to Jaipur.