Raksha

Raksha is Mowgli's adoptive wolf mother and the overarching protagonist of the 2016 live action film adaptation of Disney's The Jungle Book. She is voiced by Lupita Nyong'o, who also played Patsey in 12 Years A Slave, Nakia in Black Panther, Maz Kanata in the Star Wars sequel trilogy, and Roz in The Wild Robot. Biography Raksha serves as Mowgli's adoptive mother after Akela approves of his joining the Seeonee pack as an infant thanks to their old friend Bagheera, the panther, and is highly supportive and protective of him. When Shere Khan threatens him during the pack's drinking at the Water Truce, the watering hole where all the animals come to drink in peace during the drought, Raksha stands firm in her defense of him, defying Shere Khan's demands to have the boy handed over to him and citing the tiger's propensity to hunt for sport and pleasure when he says man is forbidden in the jungle according to their laws. When Mowgli leaves for the Man-village with Bagheera in order to protect her and the rest of the pack from Shere Khan's wrath, Raksha does not want him to leave, and only agrees with Akela