Tourists Flock To Theppakadu After Oscar For ‘The Elephant Whisperers’ – FilmyVoice

Numerous vacationers eager to see the elephants Raghu and Ammu, who’ve develop into well-known after the documentary quick movie, ‘The Elephant Whisperers’, gained an Oscar on the ninety fifth Academy Awards.

The movie, helmed by Kartika Gonsalves, revolves round two Kattunaiyakan tribe members, Bomman and Bellie, who nurture and convey up the orphaned elephant calves. Bomman and Bellie even acquired married whereas the movie was being shot.

Sukumaran Nair from Thiruvananthapuram is visiting the Theppakadu Elephant Camp for the primary time. The camp is positioned deep contained in the Mudumalai Nationwide Park within the Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu. It was arrange in 1917 for timber loggers.

Nair, a retired Kerala water works division engineer, mentioned throughout a dialog with IANS: “That is the primary time I’m paying a go to to the camp. The one concept is to satisfy the elephants Reghu and Ammu and if doable have a chat with Bomman and Bellie.”

Nair and his spouse Indira Devi are each retired. Once they learnt about movie getting an Oscar, they left Thiruvananthapuram in a cab to succeed in Theppakadu by the night on Monday. They now hope to have a chat with each Bomman and Bellie, although Bomman is away in Salem to carry again an injured elephant.

The retired engineer mentioned he would keep again at Theppakadu for a few days extra and attempt to perceive the bonding between the elephants and their mahouts.

Umesh Singh is one other vacationer who reached Theppakadu within the morning on Tuesday. He informed IANS that he was from Delhi and was travelling throughout the South over the previous two weeks. After listening to the information concerning the Oscar for ‘The Elephant Whisperers’, he left for Theppakadu to have a glimpse of the elephants Raghu and Ammu.

The camp officers mentioned just a few overseas vacationers have been additionally there as a result of they needed to satisfy the elephants in addition to their mahouts.

Theppakadu Elephant now homes 28 elephants who have been captured whereas they have been wild tuskers creating issues for native villagers. These jumbos are tamed at this camp and skilled to develop into ‘kumki’ elephants meant to assist in the seize of untamed elephants.