{"id":57344,"date":"2023-08-07T21:36:09","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T12:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/07\/indian-couple-who-starred-in-oscar-winning-film-say-director-backed-out-of-pay-promises"},"modified":"2023-08-07T21:36:09","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T12:36:09","slug":"indian-couple-who-starred-in-oscar-winning-film-say-director-backed-out-of-pay-promises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57344","title":{"rendered":"Indian couple who starred in Oscar-winning film say director backed out of pay promises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The stars of The Elephant Whisperers accuse Kartiki Gonsalves of failing to give them a house, car and lump sum \u2013 claims she denies<\/p>\n<p>The couple who were the subject of an Oscar-winning Indian documentary have accused the film\u2019s director, Kartiki Gonsalves, of reneging on payments they say were due to them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2023\/mar\/13\/elephant-whisperers-director-kartiki-gonsalves-interview\">The Elephant Whisperers<\/a> charts the relationship between a middle-aged couple, Bomman and Bellie, who look after young elephant calves and a baby elephant called Raghu on the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve in the southern state of Tamil Nadu. It won the Oscar for best documentary short film in March.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/07\/indian-couple-who-starred-in-oscar-winning-film-say-director-backed-out-of-pay-promises\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The stars of The Elephant Whisperers accuse Kartiki Gonsalves of failing to give them a house, car and lump sum \u2013 claims she deniesThe couple who were the subject of an Oscar-winning Indian documentary have accused the film\u2019s director, Kartiki Gonsalve&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":364,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[69,62,94,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-india","category-wildlife","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/364"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57345,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57344\/revisions\/57345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}