A mongoose with a vendetta and zero chill. Nature's tiny assassin has entered the chat.
Rikki is a young mongoose who is adopted by a human family after nearly drowning in the river. He returns the favour by protecting them from two murderous cobra.
Practical Effects
Real cobras. Real mongoose. Zero CGI cowards here.
Direction
Zguridi turns Kipling into tense survival horror.
Director
Aleksandr Zguridi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The mongoose was reportedly difficult to work with and bit multiple crew members. Method acting, apparently.
This Soviet-Indian co-production arrived during Cold War détente, making Rikki a bizarre propaganda-adjacent cultural artifact.
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