Tarzan and the Golden Grotto: Sort of official; featuring Cheeta, his friends and rivals.
Kadina Raja ‘69: has a Jane Porter expy and her sidekicks, plus an Ayesha expy and her fellow Mooks such as one played by Tiger Prabhakar. Funnily enough, it’s the first ever Kenya Boy knockoff in India! Also known as Kadina Rahasya, it also has a lost Hindi remake called Jungle King.
Tarzan and the Brown Prince: sorta official and tying in with a Pinoy graphic novel by Franc Reyes, also featuring Cheeta the chimp, her/his friends and rivals.
Tarzan and the Jungle Mystery: filmed in the Ivory Coast; also featuring nuns, Cheeta and her/his friends/rivals.
Tarzan and the Treasure of Kawana: a sequel to Tarzan and the Jungle Mystery, similarly filmed in the Ivory Coast; also featuring Cheeta and his friends/rivals.
Tarzan the Mighty Man: is a partial compilation film; featuring a nice and kind Tarzan faithfully based on Joe Kubert’s Tarzan illustrations, a stubborn Harry Holt expy and a whiny Jane Parker expy named Ayse.
Mon Jare Chay: is both a surviving Bengali-language dub and a partial compilation film, which has a speechless Tarzan; also featuring a pair of Jane Porter and Jane Parker expies, an Ayesha expy and her fellow Mooks. Along with Dara, Love in Jungle ‘70 and Kadina Raja ‘69, it also serves as one of the four partial bases for the Kadina Raja ‘85 reboot. Its original Urdu counterpart and predecessor is the horrid Love in Jungle.
Kadina Raja 85: Tiger Prabhakar played the hero this time; also featuring a Korak expy, a pair of Jane Porter and Jane Parker expies (one played by Deepa Unni Mary Fernandes and the other by an unknown actress) an Ayesha expy and her fellow Mooks. The first ever Kenya Boy Knockoff in colour.
Adventures of Tarzan: is an unofficial localisation of all three films named Tarzan, the Ape Man; has a rather different (but still brief and at times rather iffy) take on the titular hero’s backstory and burrows the circus subplot from Pinocchio (via Buratino, Baruuba and Astro Boy); also featuring a Jane Parker expy named Ruby and a flamboyant Harry Holt expy.
Boner Raja Tarzan: has a backstory inspired by that of both Zimbo and Adavi Donga ‘85 (but with the mother unintentionally abandoning her toddler son in the jungle); features a Kerchak expy and a Jane Parker expy covered in leaves, plus an Ayesha expy and her fellow Mooks.
Tarzan the King of the Jungle (Aka Tarzan Raja Rimba): The protagonist is Sambo instead of his mentor, Tarzan, and a part of his backstory had his parents be killed by beasts in the jungle when he was a young boy; also featuring an Ayesha expy named Karina, plus a pair of Jane Porter and Jane Parker expies named Gina and Laura, themselves buddies.
Tarzan the Treasure Watcher (Aka Tarzan Penunggu Harta Karun): the protagonist is the same Tarzan who mentored Sambo (but younger this time, as it’s a prequel), but another part of his backstory reveals that he is a tribeswoman’s and a Japanese dissident soldier’s son; also featuring Tarzan’s loving adoptive sister Dita and two major animal Expies; a raucous Siamang standing in for both Cheeta and N’Kima, and a Sun Bear standing in for Jad Bal Ja.
Tarzan in the Jungle: nothing else but Tarzan and Ruby Expies.
I Am The Jungle (Aka Jangli Mera Naam): the protagonist is Faisal Annu instead of Tarzan and his backstory involves science like in Kadina Raja 85, features a pair of Jane Porter and Jane Parker Expies, a Moon Bear standing in for Kerchak, an Ayesha expy and her fellow Mooks. Also known as the second ever Kenya Boy Knockoff in colour after Kadina Raja 85.
Raja and Rani’s Love in the Jungle: Has a foul tempered Tarzan, a lovely Jane Porter expy and a sympathetic Ayesha expy.
Jungle Love Story: Although based loosely on Tarzan and the Lost Safari, it is thematically inspired by Mon Jare Chay, Kadina Raja and I Am the Jungle. Interestingly, the Tarzan expy wears more conservative clothing this time; also featuring a Terkoz expy, a Jane Parker expy, a guy in a Tyrannosaurus rex-monitor lizard mix costume, an Ayesha expy and her horde of Mooks.
Jungle Diper Tarzan: steals a considerable amount of stock critter footage and has an unspeakably edgier plot than Boner Raja Tarzan; featuring a primarily speechless Tarzan and a tubby Jane Parker expy.
Nepali Tarzan: borrows some scenes from both Disney’s Tarzan and Adventures of Tarzan; has a mostly speechless Tarzan like in Jungle Diper Tarzan and a foul tempered Jane Parker expy; also featuring a wisecracking corvid, who follows the steps of the Gooney bird, and a Rhesus Macaque standing in for both N’Kima and Cheeta.
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