New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday met Oscar-winning documentary `The Elephant Whisperers` producer Guneet Monga and director Kartiki Gonsalves. Taking to Twitter, PM Modi shared pictures from the meeting with `The Elephant Whisperers` team and wrote, “The cinematic brilliance and success of `The Elephant Whisperers` has drawn global attention as well as acclaim. Today, I had the opportunity to meet the brilliant team associated with it. They have made India very proud. @guneetm @EarthSpectrum.”
In the pictures, PM Modi can be seen posing with Guneet and Kartiki and with while they hold their Oscar awards. Team `The Elephant Whisperers` made every Indian proud by winning Oscar at the 95th Academy Awards for their documentary.
Helmed by debutant Kartiki Gonsalves, the 41-minute short documentary movie explores the tentative yet precious bond between Raghu, an orphaned baby elephant, and his caretakers – a mahout couple named Bomman and Bellie – who devote their lives to protect him from poachers and raise him.
The cinematic brilliance and success of ‘The Elephant Whisperers’ has drawn global attention as well as acclaim. Today, I had the opportunity to meet the brilliant team associated with it. They have made India very proud. @guneetm @EarthSpectrum pic.twitter.com/44u16fbk3j
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) March 30, 2023
The project, which is backed by Guneet`s banner Sikhya Entertainment, beat four other contenders to clinch the statuette in the Best Documentary Short Category, making it the first Indian documentary and one of only two Indian productions to win an Oscar (the other one being `RRR`).
`The Elephant Whisperers` was nominated against `Haul Out,` `How Do You Measure A Year?`, `The Martha Mitchell Effect,` and `Stranger At The Gate’. This is the second Oscar win for Guneet. She had previously served as an executive producer on `Period. End of Sentence`, which won the 2019 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film.
