"Maugli. Bitva" is the penultimate episode, the 4th of 5 entries from Davydov's and Belokurov's Jungle Book mini series from the 1960s/1970s and even if we see Mowgli physically as a man in here, his actions show that he is still very childish and not intelligent in his actions. He does not see who his friends are, who his enemies are and as a consequence gets the lives in danger of those that matter the most to him and to whom he matters the most. Kaa apparently turns into the main antagonist with the scary tiger being chased away with the help of fire. The human storyline from the ending of the 3rd short film is not further elaborated on. All in all, this felt like maybe the weakest episode to me as it sometimes lost itself in animation instead of elaborating steadily and reasonably on some of the plot points, but this does not mean it was a bad watch. It was still decent and I also recommend this one. It is probably also essential to see in order to understand the chronology and the final episode that is about to come.