The Jungle Book (2016)

[amish]

I thought in Jungle book series that broadcasted in India like 20yrs back - Kaa was a friend of Mogli and saved him from Sherkhan many times too.

 

[amish]

From Wikipedia

Kaa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Kaa (Hindi: का) is a fictional character from The Jungle Book stories written by Rudyard Kipling. Kaa is one of Mowgli's mentors and friends.
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Bagheera and Baloo first enlist Kaa's help to rescue Mowgli when the man-cub is captured by the Bandar-log (monkeys) and taken to an abandoned human city. Kaa breaks down the wall of the building in which Mowgli is imprisoned and uses his serpentine hypnosis to draw the monkeys toward his waiting jaws.
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After he (Kaa) and Mowgli spend some time relaxing, bathing and wrestling,
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Mowgli asks Kaa for help when his wolf pack is threatened by rampaging dholes (the red dogs of the title). Kaa goes into a trance so that he can search his century-long memory for a stratagem to defeat the dogs:

Clearly I think actual Kaa (one by original author) is supposed to be friendly with Mowgli but in some versions its not shown so.

 

[itzmynet]

In the 1967 Disney animation The Jungle Book, Kaa, voiced by Sterling Holloway is markedly different from his original counterpart. Rather than being a mentor, he serves as the secondary antagonist (after Shere Khan) and comic relief who twice attempts to trap Mowgli in his coils in order to devour him throughout the film. He does this through the use of hypnotic eyes as opposed to the original version, in which he uses a serpentine dance to control his prey. His attempts to eat Mowgli always end in a comical failure. He is also quite cowardly, attempting to curry favor with Shere Khan whenever he is around.

 

[amish]

So disney itself has two versions!!

Movie shows Kaa in negative role

But serials showed Kaa as good python.

Here is hindi DUBBED version first episode showing Kaa as good python!

(start at 5:30 if it does not start from there automatically)

 

[amish]

Jungle Book Shōnen Mowgli - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Appears that the Jungle we saw in childhood was not by Disney but by Japanese one by Nippon Animation!

Since it adpated original book - hence Kaa is a nice python.

 

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