CrE@TiVe Di$nEY F@N$: Mowgli

Today I’m going to post my most favorite that I had seen the first when I was a kid i.e. Mowgli. All the ‘90 born kids may seen this animation series.ungle Book: Shōnen Mowgli was a Japanese animated television series that aired in 1989. In total, 52 episodes aired, all of them focusing on Mowgli and his adventures in the jungles of India.

The English opening and closing themes, "Wake Up" and "A Child is learning, " are both sung by the American vocalist Suzi Marsh. The anime was dubbed into Hindi and was broadcast as "The Jungle Book" by DD National in India during the 1990's.

The Hindi version "Jungle Jungle Baat Chali Hai" (जंगल जंगल बात चली है), featured original music by Vishal Bharadwaj (with words by noted lyricist Gulzar), and also one of the singers of the title song "Jungle Jungle Baat Chali Hai" was Amol Sahdev, which made it quite popular at that time.

Some character from Mowgli :

Mowgli:The protagonist of the series. He is still a young boy when he becomes lost in the forest of Seeonee. He lost his biological parents when they went out searching for him and fell to their deaths from a cliff, and into a river, after a panther named Bagheera unintentionally frightens them. Alexander, adopts him as a son and raises him as a wolf. Mowgli appears to be somewhere between the ages of 6 and 10 during the course of the show, though the first episode shows him as a toddler. He's an adventurous, fun-loving, outgoing boy. But he also goes through a sort of identity crisis, struggling to figure out just what he really is and where he really belongs.

Alexander: Mowgli's stepfather, Luri's husband and paternal father to Akru and Sura. Blue/black furred. He becomes leader of the wolf pack when Akela chooses to retire. He has a fight with Vermillion, despite not being willing to do so, to determine the successor to Akela's leadership, in accordance with the Law of the Jungle. During a fire that grazes the forest, Alexander dies defending his pack from Shere Khan.

Luri: Alexander's wife/widow, Mowgli's foster mother and maternal mother to Akru and Sura. Beige furred. She later becomes the official new leader of the pack and the first female leader of the pack when Akela steps down from his position once again, after originally asking Mowgli to convince Vermillion if he'd accept the request of leading. She came up with the plan of getting an ex-member of the pack named Grizzle exiled from it again, this time along with his gang, without having to battle.

Akru and Sura:Sons of Alexander and Luri and Mowgli's adoptive brothers. Akru has brown and beige fur, while Sura's is blue and black, like his father. They are only cubs when Mowgli is first adopted by the wolf couple but are fully grown in subsequent episodes. They are both very close to Mowgli and stay that way throughout the series, even after they leave home and find mates. Akru has a tendency to be hot headed and does not always look before he leaps, whereas Sura tends to be calmer and more collective. In the German version of the show, Akru was actually female and Mowlgi's adoptive sister; this later became a problem when the character becomes mates with Maki. And due to his voice actor being a woman, many mistook Sura as female in the English version initially.

Akel: The leader of the pack, notably when Mowgli is first adopted into the pack and during most of Mowgli's younger days. His coat is mostly a dark, bluish-grey hue, with a lighter shade of those colors for his eyebrows and the thicker fur on his upper body. He is very old but very knowledgeable, and is forced out of his retirement after Alexander died. Later, he serves as Luri's consultant or advisor when she takes over as pack leader. Near the series' finale, Akela would pass on himself by wounds from jackals.

Vermillion: Lala's father and Alexander's great friend. He competes with Alexander to be the next leader of the pack, when his father, Akela, chooses to step down. He acquires a scar on his left eye afterwards. His fur is red in colour. It is later revealed that they had also fought previously to decide which one would marry Luri. He later moves away, apparently leaving his daughter behind, and becomes the leader of a pack of wolves in a rocky desert area.

Sher khan:A tiger, who is the main antagonist of much of the series. Cruel and cunning, rebellious and menacing, he violates many Laws of the Jungle, including eating humans and cows, and over-hunting. He's also fearless of most things, except that he's a pyrophobe (or one who fears fire), he's frightened by guns and he withdraws when it comes to an elephant named Hathi. His loathsome for humans is part of a history that goes back to his first ancestor's encounter with one. The injury on his leg is dealt by Alexander in a fight. Later, other injuries he'd receive include: A piercing being made in his forehead after Mowgli attacks him with a long, narrow, sharp-edged rock; the wound over his left eye being made, again by Mowgli, slashing it with a blade in requital for slashing Mowgli's left thigh and harming one of his new human friends/future family members, leaving the tiger disfigured; and in the last showdown, Mowgli defeats and slays Shere Khan by stabbing him in one of his sides.

Bagheera : A black panther, and one of Mowgli's friends. Mowgli's main teacher of the Laws of the Jungle. He is seen as a de factomember of Mowgli's wolf pack. Bagheera spent part of his childhood in the care of an English family.

Baloo:A dark blue sloth bear, and one of Mowgli's friends. He also serves as one of Mowgli's teachers though he is more enthusiastic and has a gentler approach in some of his lessons.

Kaa:A very wise python, and one of Mowgli's friends. He also serves as a teacher to Mowgli on a few occasions.

Tabaqui:Shere Khan's sidekick. Unlike the other versions of Jungle Book, he is a bungling striped hyena who never seems to get anything right. He's also notorious for being idle, greedy, incompetent, conniving, dimwitted, dastardly and chatty. Later, he and another hyena meet their demises when Mowgli and Shere Khan go against each other once more, and both hyenas are lethally gored by water buffaloes.

Sandah/Thunder: A young male wolf from Vermillion's pack. He is blue-black in colour. Sandah hates the humans after they killed his sister, Dulia and resents Mowgli for being a human. He eventually comes to terms with him, and even though he leaves with Vermillion and his pack, he and Mowgli appear to share a close camaraderie. Sandah seems to be a lieutenant, or beta wolf, to Vermillion. Certain translations portray him as female.

Lala: Vermillion's daughter and Akela's granddaughter. She has brilliant red fur, though slightly lighter than her father's. She acts like a tomboy early in the series, and refuses to accept Mowgli as a member of the pack. Later in the series, she matures and becomes more fond of Mowlgi. By the end of the series, she and Sura are the parents of two cubs, one of whom is given the name Rusty in the English dub.

Kichi: Mowgli's red panda friend. His parents are killed by humans. After Mowgli accuses Kichi of causing trouble (which he unintentionally does) and being a nuisance, he has a harder time fitting in with the new crowd due to already being an outsider and decides to get on the wrong foot. But his friendship with Mowgli would be put to the test when they're prompted to work together. Later in the series he lives together with Mowgli in his hut. In the English version, Kichi is referred to as a male. In the German version, Kichi is called Kiki. The confusion is due to the fact that the character was voiced by a woman in the Japanese version, a common practice in animation voice work for younger or cute characters.

Mari/Meshua: Meshua/Jumeirah's mother, Bougi/Anwar's daughter and Nil/ Sanjay's wife. When the family first meet Mowgli, Mari mistakes Mowgli for her son, but despite the fact that it's not really him, she still treats him as if he were one of her own and he grows on her instantly. She comes to love Mowgli so much so that she desperately wishes and prefers that he not take on Shere Khan. Ironically, her name is changed to Meshua (which was Jumeirah's original name in the Japanese variant) for the English dub.

For more history and character and story explanation :

http://anisearch.de/?page=chara&id=2825

Some model sheets and photos from Mowgli: