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తికమకపడుతోన్న హీరో అక్షయ్ కుమార్
'గుడ్న్యూజ్' సినిమా ఫస్ట్లుక్ ఆకట్టుకుంటోంది. హీరోహీరోయిన్లుగా అక్షయ్ కుమార్, దిల్జీత్ దోసాంజే, కరీనా కపూర్, కియారా అడ్వాణీ నటిస్తున్నారు.
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Published : Nov 14, 2019, 3:34 PM IST
గుడ్న్యూజ్ సినిమా ఫస్ట్లుక్ పోస్టర్
హీరో అక్షయ్ కుమార్... 'హౌస్ ఫుల్ 4'తో ఇటీవలే ప్రేక్షకుల ముందుకొచ్చాడు. కన్ఫ్యూజ్ లవ్ డ్రామాతో హాస్యం పండించి హిట్ అందుకున్నాడు. తన తర్వాతి సినిమా కూడా అదే జోనర్లో చేస్తున్నాడు. 'గుడ్న్యూజ్' పేరుతో తెరకెక్కుతోంది. గురవారం ఫస్ట్లుక్ను విడుదల చేశారు.
గుడ్న్యూజ్ సినిమా ఫస్ట్లుక్ విభిన్న కథాంశంతో రూపొందుతోందీ చిత్రం. ఇందులో కృత్రిమ పద్ధతిలో గర్భం దాల్చే యువతులు పాత్రల్లో కియారా అడ్వాణీ, కరీనా కపూర్ నటిస్తున్నారు. వీరిద్దరి మధ్యలో తికమక పడుతోన్న అక్షయ్ లుక్ ఆసక్తికరంగా ఉంటూ ఆకట్టుకుంటోంది.
'గుడ్న్యూజ్' సినిమా అక్షయ్ కుమార్ లుక్ రాజ్ మెహతా దర్శకత్వం వహిస్తున్నాడు. ధర్మా ప్రొడక్షన్స్, కేఫ్ ఆఫ్ గుడ్ ఫిలిమ్స్ సంయుక్తంగా నిర్మిస్తున్నాయి. క్రిస్మస్ కానుకగా వచ్చే నెల 27న ప్రేక్షకుల ముందుకు రానుంది.
ఇది చదవండి: సెట్లో అక్షయ్, రోహిత్‌ గొడవ.. వీడియో వైరల్
హీరో అక్షయ్ కుమార్... 'హౌస్ ఫుల్ 4'తో ఇటీవలే ప్రేక్షకుల ముందుకొచ్చాడు. కన్ఫ్యూజ్ లవ్ డ్రామాతో హాస్యం పండించి హిట్ అందుకున్నాడు. తన తర్వాతి సినిమా కూడా అదే జోనర్లో చేస్తున్నాడు. 'గుడ్న్యూజ్' పేరుతో తెరకెక్కుతోంది. గురవారం ఫస్ట్లుక్ను విడుదల చేశారు.
గుడ్న్యూజ్ సినిమా ఫస్ట్లుక్ విభిన్న కథాంశంతో రూపొందుతోందీ చిత్రం. ఇందులో కృత్రిమ పద్ధతిలో గర్భం దాల్చే యువతులు పాత్రల్లో కియారా అడ్వాణీ, కరీనా కపూర్ నటిస్తున్నారు. వీరిద్దరి మధ్యలో తికమక పడుతోన్న అక్షయ్ లుక్ ఆసక్తికరంగా ఉంటూ ఆకట్టుకుంటోంది.
'గుడ్న్యూజ్' సినిమా అక్షయ్ కుమార్ లుక్ రాజ్ మెహతా దర్శకత్వం వహిస్తున్నాడు. ధర్మా ప్రొడక్షన్స్, కేఫ్ ఆఫ్ గుడ్ ఫిలిమ్స్ సంయుక్తంగా నిర్మిస్తున్నాయి. క్రిస్మస్ కానుకగా వచ్చే నెల 27న ప్రేక్షకుల ముందుకు రానుంది.
ఇది చదవండి: సెట్లో అక్షయ్, రోహిత్‌ గొడవ.. వీడియో వైరల్
SOUTH AFRICA ELEPHANT
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS/ SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL PARKS
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LENGTH: 6:39
SHOTLIST:
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Knysna, South Africa - exact date unknown
1. Wide Knynsa Forest elephant
++NIGHT SHOTS++
2. Knynsa Forest elephant walks past camera trap
3. Knynsa Forest elephant tries to get through a fence
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Knysna, South Africa - 4 November 2019
++DAY SHOTS++
4. Wide Knynsa Forest
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Knysna, South Africa - 5 November 2019
5. Wide Knysna Forest Field Ranger Karel Maswatie walking through the forest
6. SOUNDBITE (Afrikaans): Karel Maswatie, Field Ranger, Knysna Forest:
"These are the footprints of the elephant. It came in from that side, and it pushed over this tree. It's a yellowwood tree. Then it continued on into the forest."
7. Low shot of Field Ranger Karel Maswatie walking through the forest
8. SOUNDBITE (Afrikaans): Karel Maswatie, Field Ranger, Knysna Forest:
"If she smells people, she moves deeper into the forest. It's just at night that she's not so shy, unlike during the day. At night she's a bit curious and she'll come out to see who's walking around here, because it's her area. She's the old forest giant here."
9. Various South African National Parks Scientist Lizette Moolman opening a camera trap to get the SD card
10. Close of SD card being removed from camera trap
11. Wide Moolman placing SD card into her laptop
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Knysna, South Africa - exact date unknown
12. Knynsa Forest elephant walks up to and inspects a camera trap
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Knysna, South Africa - 5 November 2019
13. SOUNDBITE (English): Lizette Moolman, South African National Parks:
"Over the course of 15 months with the 80 cameras we had a span across the elephant range, we saw this same elephant cow, obviously by herself about 140 different times and dates. And we also sent all the footage to Joyce Poole, who is a very well known elephant specialist, and she is especially very good with identifying elephants. And they also confirmed that all these different capture events showed the same elephant. So our conclusion was that it very unfortunately seems like there's only one elephant left in Knysna."
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Knysna, South Africa - exact date unknown
++NIGHT SHOTS++
14. Wide Knynsa elephant
15. Knysna elephant playing with a digger ++MUTE++
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Knysna, South Africa - 4 November 2019
++DAY SHOTS++
16. Various environmentalist Gareth Patterson measuring up a piece of elephant dung
17. SOUNDBITE (English): Gareth Patterson, Environmentalist:
"I discovered that there's a small breeding little population. Very endangered. Very, very endangered little population. I mean, if an elephant disease struck here, that would be the end of them. But there are literally, I estimate, maybe, I don't know today - it's been ten years since I did my last DNA work. But the last time I did DNA work it indicated at least six, it showed six females. And then, back then I knew of three bulls. I think one has died. And hopefully a few calves. So maybe ten or eleven, maybe more. But no one really knows, because it's an impossible task to find out, because of the thick, incredible forest."
18. Wide Park General Manager, Garden Route National Park, Paddy Gordon
19. SOUNDBITE (English): Paddy Gordon, Park General Manager, Garden Route National Park:
"The first option we have to look at is the management decision to do nothing. Because the elephant at the moment is surviving. She has over decades learnt how to survive in an unfenced, forested area. She knows where to hide, she knows where to move, she knows how to evade contact, and being seen. So doing nothing is an option but that comes with risks as well because she is only one elephant. Then obviously the next group is some kind of intervention: bringing in a small calf, bringing in tame elephants, bringing in a small herd. Those all come with risks and benefits as well. And all of those we will continue to do the risk benefit analysis with, as well as going through a broader stake holder analysis, what the public feel -- their view of having Knysna elephants in their back yards."
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Knysna, South Africa, 5 November 2019
20. Wide artist Guy Thesen at work in his studio with Knysna elephant images in the foreground
21. Close Thesen painting acrylics onto his wooden canvas
22. Wide Thesen at work in his studio
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Knysna, South Africa - 5 November 2019
23. Pan Knysna Thesen walking into the Knysna Fine Art Gallery where his work celebrating Knysna's last elephant is on display ++MUTE++
24. Close two of the "Lament" pieces artistically depicting Knysna Forest's last elephant
25. SOUNDBITE (English): Guy Thesen, artist:
"This elephant is the last of the southern Cape herd. She is the last female, and it's an amazing moment. And I felt that as an artist I've given her a tribute. I've given her a celebration because it's a fact. There's nothing we can really do about it. We can't change history. And it is a local extinction."
26. Pan across artworks
27. Close two of the "Lament" pieces artistically depicting Knysna Forest's last elephant
LEADIN
Asian and African elephant numbers have plummeted over the last decades, due to illegal hunting for ivory, and human encroachment.
Now a sobering study of a local elephant population in South Africa suggests there might only be one free-ranging elephant left in the Southern Cape.
STORYLINE:
Thanks to a camera trap this elusive female elephant is now visible to everyone.
A recent study based on these camera trap images indicates that she is the last elephant in South Africa's Knysna Forest.
That makes her not only Africa's southernmost elephant, but according to South Africa National Parks, she could also possibly be the only free-ranging elephant left in South Africa that is not contained within a national park or game reserve.
The Knysna forest is the largest forest complex in Southern Africa, and covers an area of about 60,500 hectares.
Years of logging, hunting, culling, and human impact have brought down the numbers from an estimated 500 in 1874, according to South African National Parks.
Knysna Forest Field Ranger Karel Maswatie has been tracking these behemouths since 1993, when there were believed to be two.
"These are the footprints of the elephant. It came in from that side, and it pushed over this tree. It's a yellowwood tree. Then it continued on into the forest."
As a fragmented national park, with people and vehicles passing through, this last elephant is rather shy.
"If she smells people, she moves deeper into the forest. It's just at night that she's not so shy, unlike during the day. At night she's a bit curious and she'll come out to see who's walking around here, because it's her area. She's the old forest giant here."
Lizette Moolman from the South African National Parks worked on a scientific study that was published in January 2019 in the Journal of Wildlife Research.
The paper was based on a camera trap survey, bringing to the public view a very wary elephant.
"Over the course of 15 months with the 80 cameras we had a span across the elephant range, we saw this same elephant cow, obviously by herself about 140 different times and dates.
And we also sent all the footage to Joyce Poole, who is a very well known elephant specialist, and she is especially very good with identifying elephants.
And they also confirmed that all these different capture events showed the same elephant. So our conclusion was that it very unfortunately seems like there's only one elephant left in Knysna."
Moolman says this last elephant does its best to avoid human contact in this unfenced park.
Moolman also speculates that the cow interacts with the closest thing to an elephant, a digger.
Gareth Patterson is an environmentalist who has been studying the Knysna elephants since 2001 and has written two books on the subject.
In a study published in the African Journal of Ecology in 2007, Patterson took dung samples for DNA analysis by expert Lori Eggert.
Their results indicated at least five female elephants.
"I discovered that there's a little, small breeding population. Very endangered. Very, very endangered little population. I mean, if an elephant disease struck here, that would be the end of them. But there are literally, I estimate, maybe, I don't know today -- it's been ten years since I did my last DNA work. But the last time I did DNA work it indicated at least six, it showed six females. And then, back then I knew of three bulls.
I think one has died. And hopefully a few calves. So maybe ten or eleven, maybe more.
But no one really knows, because it's an impossible task to find out, because of the thick incredible forest."
South African National Parks queries the reliability of that study, and sticks to its camera trap study outcome of one remaining elephant.
Park Manager Paddy Gordon says introducing more elephants into the unfenced Knysna Forest requires careful planning.
"The first option we have to look at is the management decision to do nothing. Because the elephant at the moment is surviving.
She has over decades learnt to survive in an unfenced forested area. She knows where to hide, she knows where to move, she knows how to evade contact, of being seen. So doing nothing is an option but that comes with risks as well because she is only one elephant.
Then obviously the next group is some kind of intervention: bringing in a small calf, bringing in tame elephants, bringing in a small herd. Those all come with risks and benefits as well. And all of those we will continue to do the risk benefit analysis with, as well as going through a broader stake holder analysis, what the public feel -- their view of having Knysna elephants in their back yards."
Knynsa artist Guy Thesen was inspired by the South African National Parks camera trap study to create a set of 20 pieces entitled Lament.
Thesen carves into wood and then paints using acrylics. His collection of 20 pieces are for sale in the town of Knysna.
"This elephant is the last of the southern Cape herd. She is the last female, and it's an amazing moment.
And I felt that as an artist I've given her a tribute. I've given her a celebration because it's a fact. There's nothing we can really do about it. We can't change history. And it is a local extinction."
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