Jungle Book (1942)

Ralph Byrd: Durga

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  English Girl : [as they ride up on horseback upon a group of villagers gathered in a circle around an old wise man]  What a beautiful old man. What a lovely head.

  Sikh : India's filled with old men mahila.

  English Girl : But not like the one in the yellow turban. He's like a head of John the Baptist.

  Sikh : The mahila refers to the storyteller?

  Durga : Are these silent monsters at peace with us? It is but a true stray leap with man. But I who have seen the tusks-stained red with blood, I could tell you a tale of the silent ones... gor a few coppers, eh? Ay, for a bowl of rice?

  [he initially draws back as the girl takes a photo of him] 

  Durga : What would you do with my image manasaheya?

  English Girl : I would keep it, for a memory of India.

  Durga : Verily, you would have all of India in your picture. Nay, you would have the book of the jungle to read in my eyes.

  [she gives him a coin and he happily proceeds to narrate the backdrop and story of the jungle]