A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi, President Droupadi Murmu on Friday met producer Guneet Monga and director Kartiki Gonsalves, the makers of The Elephant Whisperers. The documentary gained the Oscar for the very best Documentary Short final month. (Also learn: PM Modi meets with Guneet Monga, Kartiki Gonasalves and lauds their Oscar win)
The President praised Guneet and Kartiki for selling the Indian “tradition of conservation and living in harmony with nature” with their movie. Guneet had beforehand co-produced the documentary Period. End of Sentence that gained an Oscar award in 2019. Her The Elephant Whisperers is the primary Indian manufacturing to win within the class.
Sharing footage of the assembly between the filmmakers and the President, the official deal with of the president’s workplace tweeted, “President Droupadi Murmu met the makers of Oscar profitable documentary The Elephant Whisperers, Kartiki Gonsalves and Guneet Monga. She congratulated them on profitable the award and praised them for showcasing India’s custom of conservation and residing in concord with nature.
Earlier within the day, union minister Anurag Thakur met The Elephant Whisperers’ Oscar-winning staff at his residence in Delhi. Anurag shared a video with director and cinematographer Kartiki Gonsalves, producer Guneet Monga and Netflix Vice President (Content) Monica Shergill.
The video was captioned as,”Union Minister @ianuragthakur met the Oscar-winning Elephant Whisperers team Kartiki Gonsalves, Director and Cinematographer and Guneet Moonga, Producer. #ElephantWhisperers, a netflix documentary has won the 95th Academy Awards’ Best Documentary Short award. @MIB_India.”
The minister additionally shared his happiness at assembly them. “The power of India’s storytelling is unmatched! The Elephant Whisperers is a ‘trunk‘ full of heartwarming, socially relevant and cinematographically enthralling masterpiece! Delighted to meet Guneet and Kartiki; and learn about their amazing journey while making this spellbinding documentary. India is a land of storytellers, a million tales are born each day and some retold for generations. Our regional content has gone global; it is dubbed and enjoyed in every part of the world. India is bustling with stories and a new breed of film makers is hustling to capture them!”
Kartiki Gonsalves’ 41-minute-long documentary film talks in regards to the bond that an orphaned child elephant (named Raghu) and his caretakers – mahout couple Bomman and Bellie – share. Bomman and Bellie have devoted their lives to guard him from poachers and lift him.
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