India wins two awards for the first time at Oscars: Natu-Natu for Best Original Song, The Elephant Whispers for Best Short Documentary

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RRR’s Natu-Natu song writer Chandrabose (left) and composer MM Keerwani (right) received the trophy. Both got emotional.

For the first time in the 95th Oscar ceremony, India has received two awards for the first time. The song Naatu Naatu from the film RRR won the award for Best Original Song. At the same time, The Elephant Whispers became the Best Documentary Short Film. However, the documentary feature film All That Breathes has dropped out of the race. India got nominations in these three categories in the Oscar Awards.

Natu-Natu had earlier received the title of Best Original Song at the Golden Globes Awards. Chandrabose and composer MM Keerwani, who wrote RRR’s Natu-Natu song at the Oscar ceremony, took the trophy. During this, the director of the film, Rajamouli, remained seated behind. The Telugu meaning of RRR is Roudram Ranam Rudhiram and Rise Roar Revolt in Hindi.

Kartiki Gonsalves, director of The Elephant Whispers and producer Guneet Monga received the award for Best Short Documentary. During this, Deepika Padukone present in the ceremony became emotional. She had arrived as the presenter of the ceremony. According to Indian time, the Oscar ceremony started at 5.30 am on Monday morning in Los Angeles, USA.

Guneet said – 2 women did it for India
After The Elephant Whispers won the Best Documentary Short Film award, producer Guneet Monga wrote on social media – We just won the first Oscar for any Indian production. Two women did this. I’m still trembling. At the same time, director Kartiki Gonsalves wrote – This award is for my motherland India.

The film The Elephant Whispers won Best Documentary Short Film. Producer Guneet Monga (in red saree) received the trophy.

Guneet’s second documentary got Oscar
The Elephant Whispers is Guneet’s second film to win an Oscar. The film tells the story of a South Indian couple, Boman and Bailey, who take care of an orphaned baby elephant named Raghu. The bonding between humans and animals has been shown through this film. Earlier, his film Period End of Sentence received the Oscar Award in the category of Best Documentary Short Film in 2019.

The movie The Elephant Whispers was streamed on Netflix on 8 December 2022.  This is a short film of 39 minutes.

The movie The Elephant Whispers was streamed on Netflix on 8 December 2022. This is a short film of 39 minutes.

Deepika Padukone joined as a presenter
Deepika Padukone has become a part of the ceremony as a presenter this year. This ceremony started on Monday morning at 5.30 am in Los Angeles. The live streaming through the Twitter handle of the Academy Awards is not visible in India. On opening the post, a message is being displayed – ‘This video is not available in your location’.

For the first time in 62 years, instead of red, champagne color carpet
The red carpet trend started 62 years ago at the Oscars. This time this trend has been changed. This time in the Oscar ceremony, the stars took entry on the champagne colored carpet. Earlier, Kaal-Rahul gave a live performance on RRR’s song Natu-Natu. The audience gave a standing ovation. Many stars from Hollywood to Bollywood have reached this award show being held in Los Angeles.

Know first the winners of selected categories

Category winner
1 Best Animated Feature Film movie pinocchio
2 best supporting actor Ke Hui Quan
3 best supporting actress Jamie Lee Curtis
4 Best Documentary Feature Film Navalny
5 Best Live Action Short an irish goodbye
6 Best Cinematography all quiet on the western front
7 Make-up & Hairstyling the whale
8 costume design black panther
9 Best International Feature Film all quiet on the western front
10 Best Animated Short Film The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse
11 Best Original Score volker bertelmann
12 Best Original Screenplay everything everything all at once
13 best actor Brendan Fraser
14 best actress Michelle Yeoh
15 best picture everything everything all at once

Received awards in these categories as well
Avatar 2 won the award for Best Visual Effects in other Oscar categories. Sarah Polley won Best Adapted Screenplay, and Top Gun: Maverick won Best Sound and Paul Rodgers Best Film Editing.

Special pictures of Oscar Award Ceremonies…

Deepika Padukone arrived at the ceremony in a black off shoulder gown.

Deepika Padukone arrived at the ceremony in a black off shoulder gown.

RRR team Junior NTR, Rajamouli and Ram Charan participated in the ceremony.  His film's song Naatu-Naatu got in Best Original Song.

RRR team Junior NTR, Rajamouli and Ram Charan participated in the ceremony. His film’s song Naatu-Naatu got in Best Original Song.

Kaal-Rahul gave live performance on RRR song Naatu Naatu.

Kaal-Rahul gave live performance on RRR song Naatu Naatu.

This year, you can watch nominated films from India on these OTT platforms-

Earlier 5 Indians won Oscar

  • In 1992, filmmaker Satyajit Ray was given the Oscar Award for ‘Honorary Lifetime Achievement’.
  • AR Rahman received an Oscar in the Best Music category for the music and songs of ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ released in 2008.
  • Lyricist Gulzar was awarded the Oscar Award for the song ‘Jai Ho’ from ‘Slumdog Millionaire’.
  • Resul Pokkutty was given the Oscar Award in the ‘Best Sound Mixing’ category for ‘Slumdog Millionaire’.
  • Bhanu Athaiya was awarded the Golden Trophy for Costume Design for the film Gandhi released in 1983.

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Wings was the story of pilots of World War
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It also had kissing scenes between men, including drinking alcohol in a Paris bar. Experts had described Wings as Star Wars, Titanic or Avatar of that era. Wings was made at the end of the era of silent films. Hence it was released in all major cities with live sound effects behind the scenes.

Oscar ceremony had to be postponed thrice
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The red carpet that bid farewell was identified with that
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