Oscars Awards 2024: Last year at the Oscars, India created history by bagging the Best Documentary Short Film award for Karthiki Gonsalves' 'The Elephant Whisperers'. This year, the American documentary 'The Last Repair Shop' might take home the said award at the 96th Academy Awards on Sunday.
The president praised the couple belonging to Kattunayakan tribe for devoting their life in taking care of orphaned baby elephants.
Captain MS Dhoni presented personalised CSK jerseys to the trio after training at the MA Chidambaram stadium on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday visited the Theppakkadu elephant camp at Mudumalai in the hilly Nilgiris district and interacted with Bellie and Bomman, the elephant caretakers who featured in an Oscar-winning documentary.
For about two weeks, the elephant was under the care of Bomman and Bellie at the Theppakadu Elephant Camp in the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve.
Meet Gitika Aggarwal, a native of Delhi, probably the only lawyer in India to have an IMDB page displaying a list of films she advised.
'The Elephant Whisperers', directed by Kartiki Gonsalves is the story of Bomman and Bellie who are entrusted with the taking care of an orphaned baby elephant called Raghu.
Bomman and Bellie, protagonists of the Oscar-winning documentary ‘The Elephant Whisperers’, received a special shout-out from the crew on board an IndiGo flight.
Bomman and Bellie, stars of ‘The Elephant Whisperers’, were seen holding the golden Oscars trophy in a picture shared by Kartiki Gonsalves.
In a clip, Guneet Monga, Vikas Khanna and their families are seen inside the Golden Temple and posing with the Oscar.
'The Elephant Whisperers' producer Guneet Monga said, 'At that moment I felt that I would go back and give my speech again on the main stage…'
While we celebrate The Elephant Whisperers’ win, remember that the Academy’s award choices stem from a limited world view, one that has ignored many aesthetically provocative, politically relevant and thematically contemporary documentaries India keeps producing
Oscars 2023: 'The Elephant Whisperers' is the story of how Bomman along with his wife Bellie Amma take care of an orphaned elephant named Raghu, who is injured and needs to be brought back to health.
Oscars 2023: Anand Mahindra compared "Naatu Naatu" to a mini-epic movie as he congratulated Team "RRR" for the Academy Award win.
India celebrated its historic Academy Award with enthusiasm befitting the high-energy best original song “Naatu Naatu”. The dance anthem from the blockbuster Telugu-language action epic “RRR” is the first from an Indian film to win Oscar. Let’s take a look at the many Oscar firsts in 2023.
‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ winning all the top awards finally puts the spotlight on Asian talent in Hollywood and America. It also helps prop up the Academy’s image as being pro-diversity.
Oscars 2023: 'The Elephant Whisperers', directed by Kartiki Gonsalves and produced by Guneet Monga's Sikhya Entertainment Production, won an Oscar in the Documentary Short category.
Twitter was overjoyed and jumped into celebratory mode when the winners from India were announced.
"The Elephant Whisperers", produced by Guneet Monga, marks the debut of Kartiki Gonsalves, and won big at the Oscars.
Oscar Awards 2023: 'The Elephant Whisperers', directed by Kartiki Gonsalves and produced by Guneet Monga's Sikhya Entertainment Production, was one of the three Indian films to be nominated for the 95th Academy Awards.
Indian director SS Rajamouli's film 'RRR' has scored one nomination for the best original song category for "Naatu Naatu." Two Indian documentary films, 'All That Breathes' and 'The Elephant Whisperers' have also scored nominations for the best documentary feature film and the best documentary short film categories, respectively.
Deepika Padukone is the third Indian presenter at the Oscars after model Persis Khambatta in 1980 and Priyanka Chopra Jonas in 2016.
Indian women cinematographers are making waves everywhere from the Oscars to Berlinale. At home, they are bringing technique and care to the craft.
Habitat loss and fragmentation have left the nearly 30,000 elephants found in India with no room to roam.
Kartiki Gonsalves, natural history photographer, cinematographer, director of the 2023 Oscar-winning Netflix documentary short 'The Elephant Whisperers' talks about Asian elephants and indigenous communities, the making of the film and the need to think beyond our own selves to help the planet.