WEBVTT FILE 1 00:00:02.000 --> 00:00:07.000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08.000 --> 00:00:13.000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:30.680 --> 00:00:32.200 I am Kattunayakan. 4 00:00:37.680 --> 00:00:40.240 Kattunayakan means "Kings of the forest." 5 00:00:42.280 --> 00:00:46.080 This is my home, where I belong, where the wild animals roam free. 6 00:00:49.480 --> 00:00:56.120 This is also the land where my ancestors lived for generations. 7 00:02:05.560 --> 00:02:08.600 Oh, my dear. Did you sleep, my child? 8 00:02:09.240 --> 00:02:10.360 How are you? 9 00:02:12.120 --> 00:02:14.120 Come, come here. 10 00:02:14.720 --> 00:02:19.120 Come closer. 11 00:02:20.320 --> 00:02:22.920 Come here, my dear. 12 00:02:23.000 --> 00:02:26.320 Come, come here. Come closer. 13 00:02:26.400 --> 00:02:27.920 Oh, my dear. 14 00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:29.320 Raghu! My baby. 15 00:02:34.800 --> 00:02:35.720 Come. 16 00:02:56.840 --> 00:03:00.240 Hey, come. 17 00:03:02.720 --> 00:03:05.080 Hey, lie down here. 18 00:04:10.280 --> 00:04:13.960 Bomman. Bomman! 19 00:04:14.760 --> 00:04:16.400 I am trying to light the fire! 20 00:04:22.600 --> 00:04:25.680 I am not going to marry someone who's going to be covered with ash. 21 00:04:30.400 --> 00:04:33.000 When I arrived, the baby elephant was in a very bad state. 22 00:04:34.360 --> 00:04:36.720 He was in a lot of pain, his tail had been bitten off by stray dogs 23 00:04:36.800 --> 00:04:39.120 and his open wounds were infested with maggots. 24 00:04:44.560 --> 00:04:47.360 Raghu's mother got electrocuted and died instantly. 25 00:04:49.480 --> 00:04:51.320 Due to a prolonged drought, 26 00:04:51.400 --> 00:04:55.320 his herd had wandered into a village in search of food and water. 27 00:04:57.000 --> 00:05:00.720 They tried to reunite Raghu with his herd, but they were not successful. 28 00:05:18.480 --> 00:05:21.760 Before this baby elephant, I wasn't officially a caretaker. 29 00:05:23.120 --> 00:05:24.480 When I first met the baby, 30 00:05:24.560 --> 00:05:29.600 he was tugging at my clothes like a child, and I felt his love. 31 00:05:30.960 --> 00:05:33.920 I decided I would give this motherless baby a chance. 32 00:05:35.960 --> 00:05:39.080 I am very happy that the Forest Department assigned Bellie 33 00:05:39.160 --> 00:05:42.520 to work with me to care for Raghu. 34 00:05:45.760 --> 00:05:49.640 She is the only woman currently assigned 35 00:05:49.720 --> 00:05:52.880 to care for baby elephants in Tamil Nadu. 36 00:05:55.120 --> 00:05:58.200 Look over there beneath the tree, there it is. 37 00:05:58.800 --> 00:06:00.880 There is one more walking down there. 38 00:06:02.520 --> 00:06:06.560 When Raghu arrived here, he was in bad shape. 39 00:06:06.640 --> 00:06:08.800 Everyone thought he wouldn't survive, 40 00:06:08.880 --> 00:06:11.440 but that is what gave me faith that he would. 41 00:06:21.520 --> 00:06:26.840 No one knew if Raghu would even survive. 42 00:06:26.920 --> 00:06:28.360 He was in such a bad state. 43 00:06:29.360 --> 00:06:33.400 It was a long and difficult process to cure Raghu. 44 00:06:33.480 --> 00:06:38.400 But now it feels great to see him healthy. 45 00:06:39.560 --> 00:06:43.000 We've been looking after our baby Raghu for almost three years now. 46 00:06:49.320 --> 00:06:52.040 This place is an elephant rehabilitation camp. 47 00:06:52.520 --> 00:06:56.120 Orphaned, abandoned and displaced wild elephants are brought here. 48 00:06:56.200 --> 00:06:59.400 And we take care of them. 49 00:07:10.960 --> 00:07:15.160 My grandfather looked after elephants, my father looked after elephants, 50 00:07:15.240 --> 00:07:17.800 and I became an elephant caregiver the day my father died. 51 00:07:46.720 --> 00:07:49.120 Raghu! I've been looking for your bell. How did you lose it? 52 00:07:49.200 --> 00:07:50.600 You dropped it in the water? 53 00:07:51.920 --> 00:07:55.040 Luckily, I found it in the river! 54 00:07:55.120 --> 00:07:56.480 Don't lose it again! 55 00:07:59.680 --> 00:08:02.560 They wear a bell 56 00:08:02.640 --> 00:08:05.800 so we can hear them if they get lost in the forest 57 00:08:05.880 --> 00:08:09.800 because we would lose them and they will not be able to fend for themselves. 58 00:08:15.680 --> 00:08:18.040 Raghu has a friend called Krishna. 59 00:08:21.120 --> 00:08:23.080 Look, Raghu is going over to Krishna! 60 00:08:30.280 --> 00:08:35.120 Raghu can't pluck grass on his own, and is learning from Krishna. 61 00:08:41.640 --> 00:08:44.880 Raghu got a thorn stuck on his tongue, and Krishna took it out. 62 00:08:51.840 --> 00:08:54.000 Elephants are meant to be wild. 63 00:08:56.640 --> 00:09:00.160 Watching him with Krishna brings us much happiness. 64 00:09:01.120 --> 00:09:03.760 There is only so much we can teach them, 65 00:09:03.840 --> 00:09:07.280 and there are things they can only learn from one of their own kind. 66 00:09:15.200 --> 00:09:18.000 Are you eating soap? Haven't you tasted soap before? 67 00:09:30.560 --> 00:09:33.480 Hey! You are putting water on me. Don't splash like that! 68 00:09:37.920 --> 00:09:39.440 Oh, my dear. 69 00:09:40.040 --> 00:09:43.640 Who is it? 70 00:09:43.720 --> 00:09:45.800 What do you want? 71 00:09:46.440 --> 00:09:48.560 Oh, my dear child. 72 00:09:49.960 --> 00:09:52.400 Who is the best elephant? Is it you? 73 00:09:57.880 --> 00:10:02.240 Oh, whose darling is this? Who is this? 74 00:10:15.880 --> 00:10:19.920 We have become a family around Raghu and we think that's why he survived. 75 00:10:28.600 --> 00:10:31.800 While bringing up Raghu, we forget about all our other worries. 76 00:10:34.680 --> 00:10:36.920 I have experienced many losses in my life. 77 00:10:39.600 --> 00:10:41.760 My ex-husband was killed by a tiger. 78 00:10:44.160 --> 00:10:46.960 This left me feeling scared of the forests. 79 00:10:47.040 --> 00:10:49.280 I get scared when I see a tiger. 80 00:10:50.280 --> 00:10:54.240 I am a tribal woman, and our people come from the heart of the forest. 81 00:10:58.720 --> 00:11:02.000 For us Kattunayakans, the well-being of the forest is all that matters. 82 00:11:04.000 --> 00:11:06.440 We walk barefoot within it. 83 00:11:06.520 --> 00:11:09.960 This is our way of showing respect. 84 00:11:12.640 --> 00:11:17.040 We're going to climb down that rock there… 85 00:11:56.520 --> 00:12:00.840 We live off the forest, but we also protect it. 86 00:12:02.080 --> 00:12:06.280 We only take what we need. 87 00:12:09.600 --> 00:12:12.280 Our people do not fear elephants, 88 00:12:13.360 --> 00:12:16.520 that's why we've been working with them for generations. 89 00:12:17.560 --> 00:12:19.440 I have learned over the many years of working with elephants 90 00:12:19.520 --> 00:12:22.080 that they are very intelligent and emotional beings. 91 00:12:22.160 --> 00:12:24.520 But working with elephants is dangerous in so many ways. 92 00:12:26.080 --> 00:12:29.800 I got stabbed by my big tusker a while ago. 93 00:12:30.960 --> 00:12:33.480 I cannot work with large elephants anymore. 94 00:12:34.480 --> 00:12:36.480 There it is. Open it! 95 00:12:41.640 --> 00:12:44.720 That is why I feel getting Raghu 96 00:12:44.800 --> 00:12:49.600 was a gift from God. 97 00:12:51.840 --> 00:12:55.200 I want to do my best for him. 98 00:13:01.400 --> 00:13:03.440 I feel like I am his mother. 99 00:13:05.720 --> 00:13:07.120 Drink from here… 100 00:13:10.480 --> 00:13:12.360 Everything about him is like a human, 101 00:13:12.440 --> 00:13:15.400 except that he cannot talk. He does everything else. 102 00:13:21.760 --> 00:13:23.920 Recently, my daughter died. 103 00:13:29.520 --> 00:13:32.120 Losing a child… the pain is incomparable. 104 00:13:34.480 --> 00:13:37.800 When I cried, Raghu wiped my tears away with his trunk. 105 00:13:38.840 --> 00:13:41.040 And this small gesture comforted me. 106 00:13:42.760 --> 00:13:45.240 I feel he really understands everything. 107 00:13:47.680 --> 00:13:49.840 I remember what my daughter was like at Raghu's age. 108 00:13:49.920 --> 00:13:52.880 Taking care of Raghu reminds me of taking care of my own daughter in so many ways. 109 00:13:54.360 --> 00:13:57.520 It's like she has come back into my life. 110 00:14:37.280 --> 00:14:39.880 Look how naughty you are today. 111 00:14:39.960 --> 00:14:41.480 See how naughty you are. 112 00:14:43.720 --> 00:14:45.360 Bring all the sugarcane here. 113 00:14:45.920 --> 00:14:47.880 I don't think he wants the millet ball today. 114 00:14:47.960 --> 00:14:49.720 But we have to first give him the millet. 115 00:14:50.640 --> 00:14:53.120 If you give it to him like that, he will eat it. 116 00:14:54.520 --> 00:14:57.240 He has his eyes on that dried coconut and jaggery. 117 00:14:58.400 --> 00:15:00.960 I really don't like your habit of putting your hand in the bucket! 118 00:15:12.800 --> 00:15:17.080 He's not going to eat any more because he's only looking at that coconut. 119 00:15:24.920 --> 00:15:26.720 This is what he was like when he was young, 120 00:15:26.800 --> 00:15:29.240 both of us had to take turns to feed him, only then he'd eat. 121 00:15:30.280 --> 00:15:33.400 Come here, try to feed him, he isn't eating. 122 00:15:34.560 --> 00:15:37.120 Aye, why aren't you eating, naughty boy? 123 00:15:43.280 --> 00:15:45.600 Why didn't you eat properly when she was feeding you? 124 00:16:34.960 --> 00:16:38.200 The rains have come. This will make the grass grow for you. 125 00:16:39.640 --> 00:16:42.480 Raghu will get so much grass to eat. 126 00:16:42.960 --> 00:16:45.280 Come. 127 00:16:45.360 --> 00:16:48.240 Raghu, come here under the umbrella. 128 00:17:04.360 --> 00:17:07.080 Tomorrow when I receive my salary, I'll go buy some fruits. 129 00:17:07.160 --> 00:17:08.760 You feed me and I'll feed you. 130 00:17:11.960 --> 00:17:14.200 What if while I am feeding you, you bite my fingers? 131 00:17:14.280 --> 00:17:16.760 Don't talk like that. 132 00:17:20.640 --> 00:17:21.720 Raghu, my child. 133 00:17:23.079 --> 00:17:25.240 Wait, I will give you some, I am coming. 134 00:17:25.319 --> 00:17:26.200 I am so full. 135 00:17:26.280 --> 00:17:28.440 Let's light the fire and bring the water to boil. 136 00:17:28.520 --> 00:17:29.920 He is sleepy. 137 00:17:47.840 --> 00:17:49.280 Wait, it is almost ready! 138 00:17:57.080 --> 00:18:00.720 Don't try to pull the tube, it will break. 139 00:18:02.760 --> 00:18:03.960 Are you sleepy? 140 00:18:36.600 --> 00:18:39.680 Stand still! Are you trying to eat the garland? 141 00:18:40.600 --> 00:18:42.040 Stop eating all the flowers! 142 00:18:42.960 --> 00:18:44.720 Let go of them! 143 00:18:55.600 --> 00:18:56.920 On a special ceremony day, 144 00:18:57.000 --> 00:19:00.400 elephant calves are taken to seek their blessings 145 00:19:00.480 --> 00:19:02.000 from Lord Ganesha. 146 00:19:08.040 --> 00:19:11.320 I am proud of being both a priest and a mahout, 147 00:19:11.400 --> 00:19:13.080 both bring me immense happiness. 148 00:19:13.160 --> 00:19:15.680 We pray to Lord Ganesha. 149 00:19:21.880 --> 00:19:26.040 Seeing an elephant, to us, is equivalent to seeing God. 150 00:19:27.240 --> 00:19:28.920 God and elephants are one for me. 151 00:19:29.000 --> 00:19:32.120 The way I serve God is the same way I serve the elephants. 152 00:19:35.520 --> 00:19:37.480 We take care of Raghu every single day, 153 00:19:37.560 --> 00:19:42.120 which in turn puts food on my table every day. 154 00:19:42.200 --> 00:19:45.080 This is God's presence in my life. 155 00:19:48.040 --> 00:19:50.720 Without him, we'd have nothing. 156 00:20:56.400 --> 00:20:58.320 Early morning, 5am, Bomman got a call. 157 00:21:00.120 --> 00:21:03.560 The Forest Department asked me to come to the camp immediately. 158 00:21:19.120 --> 00:21:22.240 When I went to see it, it was a tiny thing with a snotty trunk. 159 00:21:45.960 --> 00:21:49.120 The camp managers said we have to take charge of baby Ammu. 160 00:21:54.160 --> 00:21:55.800 They said, despite everyone else's efforts, 161 00:21:55.880 --> 00:21:57.560 all the other elephant babies died. 162 00:21:57.640 --> 00:21:59.480 "You successfully managed to raise Raghu." 163 00:22:11.520 --> 00:22:14.800 For a whole week, Raghu was very upset. 164 00:22:26.200 --> 00:22:31.400 If Ammu was standing close to us, he would come and push her away 165 00:22:31.480 --> 00:22:33.320 so that he could stand beside us. 166 00:22:35.760 --> 00:22:38.640 Slowly, he got used to Ammu's presence. 167 00:22:45.280 --> 00:22:46.200 Hey, wait. 168 00:23:03.200 --> 00:23:05.320 Now, we are all a family. 169 00:23:21.480 --> 00:23:24.520 By working together with Bomman, 170 00:23:26.400 --> 00:23:29.040 the bond between us has grown so much. 171 00:24:00.160 --> 00:24:03.360 Look at all of you dancing without me. Here I come. 172 00:24:41.080 --> 00:24:43.960 Come! My dear ones, run and come! 173 00:24:44.040 --> 00:24:50.440 Run a little faster to me. Come! 174 00:26:13.920 --> 00:26:16.440 Hey, stop eating the flowers! 175 00:27:08.680 --> 00:27:10.360 Sanjana is my granddaughter. 176 00:27:15.800 --> 00:27:17.360 Ama, I'll wear that dress! 177 00:27:18.920 --> 00:27:22.320 She loves me so much and helps me in everything. 178 00:27:23.840 --> 00:27:26.600 Sanjana has always loved elephants very much. 179 00:27:26.680 --> 00:27:29.960 Even now, as she is growing up, she loves them. 180 00:27:30.680 --> 00:27:33.600 I take Sanjana along with me to help take care of the elephants. 181 00:27:33.680 --> 00:27:36.000 I want her to learn from me. 182 00:27:40.360 --> 00:27:42.280 We are their parents. 183 00:27:42.360 --> 00:27:45.480 We do whatever it takes to provide for them in all their needs. 184 00:28:05.880 --> 00:28:08.760 Looking after two elephants means giving them milk, 185 00:28:08.840 --> 00:28:11.040 cleaning out their room, bathing them… 186 00:28:34.400 --> 00:28:37.840 Alongside all the hard work and care, 187 00:28:37.920 --> 00:28:44.320 elephants also require a lot of love and affection. 188 00:28:44.400 --> 00:28:48.760 It's just like raising human babies. 189 00:28:52.320 --> 00:28:54.160 -Hey. -Take it. 190 00:28:55.440 --> 00:29:01.680 The cup is empty now! 191 00:29:02.280 --> 00:29:03.400 Water. 192 00:29:15.840 --> 00:29:19.400 Sanjana, let me tell you a story. 193 00:29:19.480 --> 00:29:25.120 Three blind men went to the jungle and they came across an elephant. 194 00:29:27.840 --> 00:29:31.680 One of them touched the trunk and said it felt like a serpent. 195 00:29:31.760 --> 00:29:35.560 Another touched the ear and said, "It's a sieve!" 196 00:29:35.640 --> 00:29:42.040 The third touched the tail and said, "It's a broom!" 197 00:29:43.120 --> 00:29:45.000 In the same way, 198 00:29:45.080 --> 00:29:51.040 many believe that elephants are dangerous and they raid crops. 199 00:29:52.120 --> 00:29:55.040 But only people who live close to elephants 200 00:29:55.120 --> 00:29:56.760 know about elephants. 201 00:29:57.840 --> 00:30:02.880 That they show love when you show love. 202 00:30:03.920 --> 00:30:06.960 Just like Ammu and Raghu. 203 00:30:26.800 --> 00:30:30.880 Shortly after our wedding, we got a call from the Forest Department, 204 00:30:31.720 --> 00:30:35.960 telling us Raghu would be assigned to another caregiver. 205 00:31:04.320 --> 00:31:09.240 We begged the forest rangers not to take Raghu away from us. 206 00:31:19.120 --> 00:31:22.080 Raghu hesitated a lot while being taken away. 207 00:31:22.160 --> 00:31:25.040 He kept turning around, looking back at us and Ammu, 208 00:31:25.120 --> 00:31:26.400 and walked very slowly. 209 00:31:29.880 --> 00:31:33.680 Then Ammu cried out to him and he came running back to touch her 210 00:31:33.760 --> 00:31:36.400 and they came back to take him away again. 211 00:31:48.440 --> 00:31:52.840 My wife and I couldn't even eat properly for a few days. 212 00:31:53.400 --> 00:31:55.680 We had put in everything into raising Raghu. 213 00:31:56.560 --> 00:31:58.000 We've been through so much. 214 00:31:58.480 --> 00:32:00.480 There wasn't a single God left who we didn't pray to. 215 00:32:01.360 --> 00:32:04.080 After all the difficulties we faced in raising Raghu, 216 00:32:04.760 --> 00:32:06.480 it brings tears to my eyes. 217 00:32:13.080 --> 00:32:13.920 No. 218 00:32:23.800 --> 00:32:28.680 I feel the same intense pain I felt when my daughter died. 219 00:32:28.760 --> 00:32:32.600 I took as much care of him as if he had been my own child 220 00:32:32.680 --> 00:32:34.720 because I had to ensure his survival. 221 00:32:39.800 --> 00:32:42.360 We love them so much. 222 00:32:42.440 --> 00:32:45.800 We have brought them up 223 00:32:45.880 --> 00:32:50.560 as our own children. 224 00:32:56.160 --> 00:32:58.840 It was so painful for us and also Ammu. 225 00:32:58.920 --> 00:33:02.200 Ammu was very upset and didn't even drink her milk for a few days, 226 00:33:02.280 --> 00:33:04.400 because she was separated from Raghu. 227 00:33:20.800 --> 00:33:22.160 What are you searching for? 228 00:33:22.760 --> 00:33:23.640 I don't have any. 229 00:33:25.800 --> 00:33:26.760 Lie down here. 230 00:33:28.080 --> 00:33:30.480 If you lie on me then you will get a spanking. 231 00:33:30.560 --> 00:33:31.680 Lie down here. 232 00:33:58.680 --> 00:34:01.320 Ammu. Do you want your milk? 233 00:34:02.560 --> 00:34:03.480 What? 234 00:34:04.800 --> 00:34:05.920 Do you want milk? 235 00:34:09.480 --> 00:34:11.360 Leave me, let me go and prepare milk. 236 00:34:45.719 --> 00:34:47.600 From being scared of the forest, 237 00:34:47.679 --> 00:34:49.719 now I'm not. 238 00:34:55.920 --> 00:34:58.080 I had so much loss and sadness, 239 00:34:58.159 --> 00:35:01.159 but now I've found my way through it. I've found my voice. 240 00:35:10.640 --> 00:35:12.880 I have raised two baby elephants. 241 00:35:18.640 --> 00:35:21.040 Now everyone knows me as the mother of elephants 242 00:35:21.120 --> 00:35:22.840 and that makes me very proud. 243 00:35:36.560 --> 00:35:37.840 It is the actions of us humans 244 00:35:37.920 --> 00:35:40.320 that is causing elephants to enter villages these days. 245 00:35:42.880 --> 00:35:45.800 Our mistakes are very harmful, both for us and for elephants. 246 00:35:48.800 --> 00:35:53.360 We were able to save Raghu and Ammu because they were brought to us. 247 00:35:54.560 --> 00:35:58.880 Baby Ammu! 248 00:36:00.480 --> 00:36:03.880 But we are not able to save all of them. 249 00:36:17.640 --> 00:36:19.760 Every time I see Raghu, I feel great joy. 250 00:36:20.520 --> 00:36:23.120 Even today he still comes running to me when I call. 251 00:36:24.000 --> 00:36:28.360 Aye, here, come to me, come! 252 00:36:33.800 --> 00:36:38.920 I see the love he has for me, and I feel love for him too. 253 00:36:58.840 --> 00:37:00.960 This is me when I was a young boy. 254 00:37:13.000 --> 00:37:15.400 These children are our future. 255 00:37:18.200 --> 00:37:21.360 We want the younger generation to learn from us. 256 00:37:21.440 --> 00:37:24.320 They learn by watching and helping us work. 257 00:37:27.480 --> 00:37:29.960 After me, this younger generation will carry on the tradition 258 00:37:30.040 --> 00:37:32.200 of working with elephants and they will do it well. 259 00:37:34.560 --> 00:37:37.320 I cannot imagine a life without elephants.