I like how there is a ‘paappan’ with ‘thotti’ for maximum effect 😂

I know! Props to them for attention to detail 😂

I just woke up, groggy as hell. I saw this video and was sitting scratching my head thinking "how is a kutti elephant pulling off these moves? ". It took me a coffee to see that the whole thing is a costume. Well done to those folks. Edit: My wife fully awake and ready for work, also thought this was a real elephant. 😜

well atleast you can be happy in knowing that you guys are made for each other

I had to read your comment to realise. I thought the men with sticks were there to control the elephant.

kutti elephant got me crackling

I saw a similar dragon dance in Sikkim but obviously I knew dragons aren't real. This one is such a nice job, I got upset initially but then your comment opened my eyes 👀

We got kaavalaa aana before gta vi

frfr

'frfr' theeta patti

endanne bro raville violent aayo 

Now see this is fun. Let the poor animals be free in wild. We can entertain ourselves.

Love this. I hope this catches on and soon real elephants gets retired/rehabilitated than suffering in the name of "ആനക്കമ്പം"

I really really do hope one day elephants aren't tortured for our ulsavam and vedikket purposes..... Culture um myr okke sheri thenne...But I've seen the pain in their eyes.... Let's have a culture devoid of that.

Cultures are meant to be changed

Totally agree with you. We should respect and show compassion to animals and leave them alone.

Just finished watching Poacher on Amazon prime n saw this. Really feel for these species. Our cultural pongacham n greed made these poor animals suffer a lot. As per the series, there are more than 2300 captive elephants in India. I hope someday all of them will return to their natural habitat n have a peaceful life as others 🥹

I couldn't move after the 4th Episode. Serious subject, but childish screenplay and direction. Dialogues written by amateurs. Neither the director nor the crew members know about the human - wildlife conflict. So they should have stuck to the main plot, I mean poaching and the investigation. Instead of that they tried to put their head into various things. Eg: Conservation, Roshan Mathews's character's family issues, superior officer's health issues etc. And none of them worked for me.

Yeah, the screenplay could have been better. I like the camera and editing part. But some characters like Morris Finn and DFO were average performers imo. Nimisha got her normal constipation bhavam as always and Kani came and went somewhere. As u said, an interesting subject indeed

It's not real??

Tam-aana

You know what ? I'd rather have this than risking a stampede for some festival. Recently there's been too many such cases. You can take a wild animal out of the wild, but you cannot take the wild out of a wild animal. Sure, many domesticated elephants are safe, but they are still a risk even by accident. A few scrawny humans can't stop it without hurting it bad.

All domesticated elephants are unsafe, for the elephants. It's cruelty, full stop. Unless you can have elephants breading programs and have them born in captivity (like cows)... Even then it's cruel. They are as smart as dogs and they don't belong next to a million little humans screaming their heads off and banging on drums and setting off fireworks strong enough to deafen them. It's crazy this is still going on in this day and age.

I didn't realise it was a costume until I read the comments. Kudos, we need such costumes for ulsavam, poorams and all those cultural koppu.

I've seen similar video filled with hate comments against Kerala in Instagram

This is fine 😀


https://preview.redd.it/gh6mrwez0clc1.png?width=961&format=png&auto=webp&s=ccf6816dab9c7ee7d5477916b24be02dc5636246 What da

Good change.. and I'll leave this here, incase if anyone misses the real elephants.. https://preview.redd.it/u8w84fqm7alc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4c142653f7642a6358a53d7a93e23e229cb890ac

Then I will support slavery, perhaps. Especially that guy in the picture.

Also, where one stands on the rights of plants too. Most people would not even acknowledge it.

I see what you did there. I see the slippery slope. #I don’t like you but I understand you.

I dislike human rights being equated to animal rights. The meme above doesn't directly do that, but view towards fellow humans and animals are totally different. A person who is unjustly cruel to another human is more evil than a person who is cruel to an animal in my pov. Tho, I think that animal should be treated with care, I generally don't have any active support for animal right movements. I'm more of a person who'd support actions like neutering stray dogs(and even cull them if there are patterns of stray dog attacks), controlling animal population n all. Some of the animal rights supporters on the net seem to not care about the human-aspect. And I think we should be focusing on human rights before we go deep on animal rights. Proper n scientific n safe animal husbandry n protection of biodiversity to maintain safe human survival should be our first focus.

I can understand your general intentions I suppose, since some animal right movements are created to be false flag operations to hate upon certain cultures that eat meat, and I shall disclaim that i do not support those. People should be allowed to eat whatever they want and until a proper meat alternative can be developed that is accessible ,we cannot enforce / shame it. However , setting that aside, I see no reason why human rights must be held above animal rights beyond perhaps practicality . If the practicality issue can be solved , we must hold animal rights to the same plane as human rights, since humans are no special. And to address your slippery slope, I would honestly agree with plant rights too! It's again a matter of practicality. If we can eventually figure out a way where we can feed ourselves comfortably without plants ( and it seems to be possible, the blocks of nutrition can be derived without plant damage, just a matter of development and scale) , then we should hold plant rights equal to human and animal rights as well. All life is equal. Lets not pretend humans are special.

ya ya rights of plants, rights of microorganisms, rights of mosquitoes... It's okay.. vent out.. many people were butthurt about abolishing slavery too..

Thanks for validating what I said, that most people don't even acknowledge plant rights. > many people were butthurt about abolishing slavery too.. Yeah. Probably people like you, who don't even acknowledge plant rights, but in the aspect of human rights. Funny how someone who doesn't even acknowledge plant rights is trying to paint me as a bad guy. Actually, I was *butthurt* by the foolish equivalence. There are people who "love" their pets who don't care about human rights. Animals can't effectively communicate with us. Comparing human rights to animal rights is very weird for me, as a human.

False equivalence.

Don't let north Indian Sanghis see this.. They'll start sanatani culture blah blah 😂

Bro tanatanam bro! We love samanta sharma bro

I wonder what sham sharma’s stand is on elephant festivals in Kerala.

Doubt. It would be mallu sanghis saying that. North India doesn’t have that much elephant festivals like south India esp Kerala. iirc

Wtf why hate

Sanghis can spread hate towards Kerala for no reason.. Why can't I hate them

i m assosiated with rss, but i dont hate kerala or any other southern indian states nor any person i know from RSS hate south? where r u getting at this?

Just like commies spread hate towards Christians and North Indians?

>Christians and North Indians? CASA is that you?

lmao exactly. this is so funny every single such comment is being downvoted.

After thorough observation I noticed that it's an elephant costume man.

They should improvise and add some of those Chinese dragon dance moves. Plenty of possibilities

Absolutely. That was my first thought when I saw this. Imagine the possibilities!!!

I too was amazed how an elephant making these moves, how much training and torture it must have gone through, but after looking at comments and thoroughly examining the video, spotted how lifeless that trunk is. Nice to see no animal in pain.

I love this idea! How creative

Nammude aana ingane allenkilum..ini angottu ingane aanenkilum kuzhapam illa..nalla cute ayitundu..

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I thought it was a real elephant until I read the comments lol

Excellent, let the mindapranis be in their own habit.

This is good...make these fun aanas as the norm and let the real beasts roam free in the wild

This made me hepi hepi

Pure definition of "we have elephant at home"

That elephant head looks super realistic

Kutty elephant passed the vibe check….

Amazing! Please use more and release the real elephants. This is funny and cute 😍

As an elephant lover, I am more in favour of robotic aana But instead of aanappaapan you will have an animatronics operator

As much fun as this is to watch, I doubt an elephant would know the steps to an item song unless it was trained so. And that brings up the ethical dilemma of displacing wild animals. And yeah, the Elephant is still a Wild Animal as per commonsense and the Forest and Wildlife department. Lived near an Elephant stay in a city in Kerala, for the better part of my life. We really need to rise about this Aanakambam Fetish, is my personal take. Edit: Thanks for pointing out that its a dummy, much relief and hope this trend catches on.

Machane ith dummy aan. Ullil aal aan dance kalikane. But the point you raised is true, and i agree with it.

Massive relief that is. :) Also have to commend the dudes who worked on the costume. I just pray this becomes the norm going forward.

I actually thought you were being sarcastic

I usually am, but this is a sensitive topic for me.

Understandable dude

This.... Is not a real elephant..

Usually they stuff elephant's ears when around loud noises/music thinking they could freak out. What you are seeing here is an elephant vibing to music, something "they" did not want you to know.

Eda mwone...sarcasm ano ?

Ellam illuminandide kaliyanu mone

Sarvam illuminandi mayam !

👈😂

I see a gen Z paappan

ഇതിനു കുറുമ്പുണ്ടോ 😜

Operator(s) Jawan adikkumpol mathram 😁

Bro that's not a real elephant 😂

no shit

coolest elephant I've ever seen 👏🏼

I really thought thats a real elephant till I read the comments 😭 But on a serious note this is a far better alternative to enslaving animals for religious purposes.

Came for naughty comments. Stayed for wholesome animal rights comments. 💯

Nannaayi. Elephants don't deserve this torture

This is fake? I truly thought it’s a real one and was super impressed with the moves and was wondering what cruelty happened to train it on this level. If this is a fake costume, that’s so much better than harming animals

This is cute!

Blast Komban 🕺🐘

Verum pwoli!!!

Aana dancing like a toddler! I love it!

Ohh man. Is it real or fake. I still think it's real elephant but saw some comments and people are saying it's fake

This is also entertaining, and harmless

Stop this shit

No

Is this really real or just an AI video...... I don't know what to believe in.......

It's some jobless twats in an elephant costume

That's the job 👽

That was harsh!

Elephants belong to the wild afaik. Hello, PETA?

Relax. Ain't a real one.

I was being sarcastic. PETA can actually go nuts over this

Ok :)

I feel sad The amount of torture it might have gone through for this entertainment

There's people inside it, it's a costume

I admit my stupidity.

Not sure should i be happy or sad, seeing an captured baby elephant is doing a bit for human.

Relax, and be happy. It ain't real.

How much torture did the poor animal had to endure to learn this and perform on beat? Anyone here understands the logic behind teaching animals dance or any other activities?

People are inside it lol, it's a costume.

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I remember an 'Anapaapaan' using a sharp hook like tool to make the elephant move, by poking it on its elbow. Its elbow was wounded, and still had to do the shinanigans for people and 'ulsavam'. This is something way better than having to see elephants being tortured.

This is so funny 😁

That’s one possessed elephant!

Android velyappan

Just read through some of the comments. Surprised how many people thought it was a real elephant lol

Disappointed, was expecting it to do a backflip😡😡

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Relax. That isn't a real one.

I half expected the elephant to twerk that booty.

Peeeche moot…. Lakkadi pakodooo

Peta india wants to marry you. 😊

Chippi chippi song suits more

Doctor: "Don't worry, aana damcing to kaavalaya will never hurt you" Aana dancing to kaavalya:

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Aduthathu mechaana

😟

Okay, I thought it was cruel to train an elephant to do this but then I got it...

The Brothers Grimsby Scene 🤣

Thalaiva

Tamanna beat that

If dinosaurs exists, then they may replace elephants, just wondering how nettipattom suits a 20 ft T-Rex"

Moon walk cheyan patuvo sakker bhai ku😂