Guneet Monga returns to India after big win at the Oscars 2023

Guneet Monga and director Kartiki Gonsalves scripted history at Oscars 2023 as their project The Elephant Whisperers won the Best Documentary Short Film statuette.

Guneet Monga returned back to India after attending the 95th Academy Awards in Los Angeles. At the Mumbai airport on Friday, she received a grand welcome from a huge crowd along with her friends and fans. She was welcomed in a very desi way with hugs, tika & garlands.

Fans were showering flower petals on Guneet. To which she responded with gratitude and humility. She also interacted with the media which were present at the airport.

Talking about her historic win at the Oscars, Guneet told news agency ANI, “We had big competition. There was another film in our category supported by Malala (Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai). Our film worked across countries, ages…the kind of love we are getting from across the world, the film worked its magic.”

The Elephant Whisperers is a 41-minute documentary that narrates the tale of two orphaned elephant calves put in the care of mahouts, Bomman and Bellie in Tamil Nadu’s Mudumalai Tiger Reserve.

Well this isn’t the first time Guneet bagged an Oscar. This was her second, her first Oscar was in 2019 for the documentary short film, Iranian American filmmaker Rayka Zehtabch’s Period: End of Sentence, which follows a group of local women at Kathikera village in Hapur, Uttar Pradesh, as they learn how to operate a machine that makes low-cost, biodegradable sanitary pads, which they sell to other women at affordable prices.