Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

Year: 1965

Runtime: 20 mins

Language: Swedish

Director: Aleksandra Snezhko-Blotskaya

Animation

A valiant mongoose enters into an unequal battle with two snakes while tries to protect a human family.

Direct adaptation

The Jungle Books: The book behind Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

Mowgli Learns the Law of the Jungle among Wolves, Bagheera, Baloo, Kaa, and Shere Khan in Kipling's Complete Two-Volume Collection of Animal Tales · by Rudyard Kipling

Why this book?

Aleksandra Snezhko-Blotskaya's Soviet animated short directly adapts Kipling's Rikki-Tikki-Tavi: a family rescues a young mongoose washed from his burrow, and Rikki defends their bungalow and garden from cobras Nag and Nagaina with help from Darzee and other animals. The compact film translates the story through stylized Indian settings, movement, and confrontation while simplifying the English family's perspective, dialogue, and the careful sequence by which Rikki destroys the snakes' eggs and survives Nagaina's final pursuit. This complete Jungle Books edition places the tale among Kipling's other animal stories and restores its narrative voice and colonial household context.

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