The Elephant Whisperer

2023 - 3 - 13

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Guneet Monga wins her second Oscar with 'The Elephant ... (Livemint)

The Elephant Whisperers: The plot of the documentary revolves around a family who adopts two orphan baby elephants in Tamil Nadu's Mudumalai Tiger Reserve.

Oscars 2023: All You Need To Know About Oscar-Winning Indian ... (Jagran Josh)

Oscars 2023: Kartiki Gonsalves' directorial debut, The Elephant Whisperer, won the Oscar for Best Documentary Short Film at the 95th Academy Awards on March ...

Following its successful premiere, the film was released globally on Netflix on 8 December 2022, allowing viewers from all over the world to experience the touching story of the couple and their beloved elephant. This year, India is competing for this prestigious award with three highly-coveted nominations. It is a heartwarming Indian-American short documentary film that tells the story of a couple who forms an unbreakable bond with an orphaned baby elephant named Raghu. SS Rajamouli's directorial RRR's "Naatu Naatu" is up for Best Original Song, while "All That Breathes" and "The Elephant Whisperers" are competing in the documentary categories. Oscars 2023: The 95th Academy Awards have arrived and this year's ceremony is packed with excitement. The movie is not only a moving account of an animal and human connection and their ability to live in harmony, but it also provides a window into Indian culture and the country's long history of environmental preservation.

Oscars 2023: Indian film The Elephant Whisperers wins Academy ... (The Indian Express)

Oscars 2023: Kartiki Gonsalves-directed short The Elephant Whisperers has won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. The film was competing against ...

Earlier, speaking to The Indian Express, Gonsalves had shared a little about the making of the short and said, “I followed Raghu’s story for five years, and had about 450 hours of footage. But you need to be patient (with something like this), and you get scenes like the one where Bellie tells Ammu to sit down next to her. [The Elephant Whisperers](https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/the-elephant-whisperers-oscar-nomination-best-documentary-short-category-8401702/), has won the Oscar for Best Documentary Short category at the 95th Academy Awards.

India wins its first Oscar of 2023 as Kartiki Gonsalves and Guneet ... (Times of India)

India won its first Oscar for 2023 as Kartiki Gonsalves and Guneet Monga's 'The Elephant Whisperer' bags an award for Best Documentary Short Film at t.

Watch: The moment when Kartiki Gonsalves, Guneet Monga won ... (Scroll.in)

Director Kartiki Gonsalves dedicated the Oscar for Best Documentary Short to her family and India.

Director Kartiki Gonsalves dedicated the Oscar for Best Documentary Short to her family and India. Watch: The moment when Kartiki Gonsalves, Guneet Monga won the Oscar for ‘The Elephant Whisperers’ [Around the Web](//scroll.in/topic/55900/around-the-web)

Indian film The Elephant Whisperers triumphs at Oscars 2023, wins ... (WION)

Tamil documentary The Elephant Whisperers brings Oscar to India. The documentary won Best Documentary Short at the 95th Academy Awards making it a maiden ...

"Kartiki has been associated to the project for 5 years and I have been with it for three and a half years. It's a venerated documentary that takes time to unfold cause real life is happening. Monga was the executive producer on Period. In her winning speech, Gonsalves dedicated the award to her family and her motherland India. The film's director Kartiki Gonsalves and producer Guneet Monga went up on stage to pick the golden statue. The Elephant Whisperers depicts an unbreakable bond between two abandoned elephants and their caretakers.

It all started with a 'sacred bond': 'The Elephant Whisperer' back ... (News Room Odisha)

New Delhi: It was on a visit back home in Ooty five years ago that Kartiki Gonsalves first met Bomman and his baby elephant, Raghu, who had been orphaned ...

It turned out to be a month and a half, but Monga was now convinced that here was a project that was waiting to be shown to the world. Monga had then said that the nomination “strengthens my faith in stories with heart and people who tirelessly submit themselves to a larger vision. an ode to unconditional selfless love for the beautiful baby ellie Raghu who felt all the emotions like us humans but only two could hear his whispers — Bomman and Bellie.” In the same narrative style, Kartiki wished to convey how climate change exacerbated human-animal conflicts and impacted the everyday lives of simple people such as Bomman and Ballie. Working on her phone camera, a GoPro, and also a DSLR, Kartiki made a 10-minute reel that she shared with Netflix. Bomman and Raghu were on their way to the Theppakadu Elephant Camp, deep inside the Mudumalai National Park in Tamil Nadu, home to hapless jumbos like the one happily waddling behind his caregiver.