![]() This Indian boy's death by the leopard was the driving force that caused Corbett to use the gin trap in the film. In reality, Corbett always tracked and hunted alone (except with Ibbotson) after a learning experience with his first man-eater in 1907. In the film, the Indian boy Sanji accompanies Corbett and assists him while he is tracking a couple of times. ![]() The hunt for the leopard is featured as more of a subplot that always takes a back seat to the Ibbotson melodrama and the other two subplots in which Corbett builds fond friendships with the local pundit and an Indian boy named Sanji and whose scenes are usually quite short and rushed compared to the former. The centrepiece of the film is not the investigation and hunt for the leopard, but rather a story about the Ibbotsons, in which the struggles of an ambitious bureaucrat and his unloved wife are pitched against Corbett and the forest. In reality, Corbett said that was unacceptable. In the film, when asked how they will find the leopard, Corbett says on two occasions that they will wait for it to kill again. In reality, Corbett believed leopards and tigers had no sense of smell, whereas in the film, he says the opposite. In reality, Corbett was a fifty-year-old with a mustache. In the film, Corbett is shown as a bare-faced young man at the time. Despite being supposedly told through them, The Man-eating Leopard of Rudraprayag episode heavily differs from Corbett's memoirs:
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