For India, today is a historic day! Elephant Whisperers, an Indian documentary short, received the Oscar for Best Documentary Short Film. Director Kartiki Gonsalves and producer Guneet Monga walked the stage to accept the award.
Against Haul Out, How Do You Measure A Year, the documentary prevailed. Stranger At The Gate and The Martha Mitchell Effect. In Tamil Nadu’s Mudumalai Tiger Reserve, a family adopts two juvenile elephants that are abandoned. This is the plot of the movie Elephant Whisperers. Guneet Monga has taken the Oscar to India before, so this isn’t the first time.
On social media, producer Guneet Monga expressed her emotions. “This is significant as this is the first Oscar for an Indian production,” she said in her essay. With two women, India’s Glory, thank you, parents Master Shukrana Achin Jain, my co-producer, Team Sikhya, Netflix, Aloke, Sarafina, and WME Bash Sanjana. Sunny, my charming husband. Happy third month of life, baby! To all the women watching, thank you Kartiki for bringing and weaving this story. The future is bold and it has already here. Move along! Jeet hind
In 2019, Guneet Monga’s documentary Period. End of Sentence bagged the Oscar in the Documentary Short Subject. Meanwhile, RRR’s Naatu Naatu is still in the run for the Oscars in the Original Song category.
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