That's What Friends Are For (The Vulture Song) That's What Friends Are For (The Vulture Song) "That's What Friends Are For (The Vulture Song)" is a song in the Walt Disney film "The Jungle Book" from 1967. It was sung by a quartet of "mop top" vultures who are making friends with Mowgli, the main character of the film. The song was written by Disney staff songwriters, Robert and Richard Sherman, and sung primarily by J. Pat O'Malley, Lord Tim Hudson, Digby Wolfe, and Chad Stuart. Bruce Reitherman and George Sanders both made cameo appearances in the song singing as Mowgli and Shere Khan the tiger, respectively, in
Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle the jungle, where he slays the dying Shere Khan. Mowgli is re-accepted as a member of the jungle. Kaa goes on to say that Mowgli gave the jungle a voice, and that as long as he lived and watched over it, there was lasting peace. There is a Hindi dubbed version, targeting Indian audience where voice and motion capture cast includes Abhishek Bachchan as Bagheera, Jackie Shroff as Shere Khan, Kareena Kapoor as Kaa, Vicky Kaushal as Tabaqui, Anil Kapoor as Baloo, Shashank Arora as Akela, Madhuri Dixit as Nisha and Pavan Malhotra as Vihaan A number of writers, directors,