For India’s Oscar nominees, awards season has brought excitement, triumph and no doubt regular bouts of jet lag as they hop from one distant time zone to another.
The South Asian country has seen three of its films earn Academy recognition — All That Breathes (Best Documentary Feature), The Elephant Whisperers (Best Documentary Short), and RRR (Best Original Song for “Naatu Naatu”).
First-time nominees involved in those projects have found themselves on a road trip adventure split between luncheons, screenings, Q&As and more screenings. “To begin with, it’s crazy.
I think it’s extremely overwhelming, but it’s such a beautiful journey and absolutely surreal,” exhales Kartiki Gonsalves, director of The Elephant Whisperers, a film about an Indigenous couple in Tamil Nadu who care for orphaned pachyderms. “This is my first documentary… I have to admit, it’s a bit scary.
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