Oscars 2023: Indian film The Elephant Whisperers wins Academy Award for Best Documentary Short, Guneet Monga reacts

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Oscars 2023: Indian film The Elephant Whisperers wins Academy Award for Best Documentary Short, Guneet Monga reacts..

Kartiki Gonsalves and Guneet Mongas Netflix documentary short, The Elephant Whisperers, has won the Oscar for Best Documentary Short category at the 95th Academy Awards..

Produced by Achin Jain and Guneet Monga, and directed by Kartiki Gonsalves, the 41-minute short follows the family from Tamil Nadus Mudumalai Tiger Reserve who end up adopting two orphan baby elephants..

Kartiki had spoken to Deadline as well about the love that had come her way post the shorts release, and said, Ive got a lot of feedback saying that it portrays the dignity of both the magnificent elephants and the Indigenous people whove lived with them and shared with them for centuries...

India had scored a total of three Oscar nominations at this years Oscars For Best Original Song (RRR song Naatu Naatu), Best Documentary Feature Film (Shaunak Sens All That Breathes), and Best Documentary Short (Kartiki Gonsalves-directed The Elephant Whisperers)...

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