“#Smithsonian Recruits the Icon for a Moving Rescue Mission”
The moving hourlong special, Cher & The Loneliest Elephant, tracks how the Twitter-savvy icon used her connections to turn an online campaign to free Kaavan — a bull elephant who’d been left all alone in a pitiful enclosure at a Pakistan zoo since 2012 — into a reality.
While Cher is his most famous advocate, the real stars here are the many experts who align to make the daunting November 2020 rescue a success. Chief among them: Dr. Amir Khalil, who spends months preparing severely mistreated Kaavan to make the seven-hour flight and four-hour drive, dangerous for everyone, to his new home at a sanctuary in Cambodia.
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“He [doesn’t] see us as a human; he sees us as monsters,” Khalil says in the documentary. Fittingly, it’s music that helps gain angry Kaavan’s trust; Khalil sings “My Way” to soothe him as he learns to walk into his travel crate.
When Cher braves the pandemic for the send-off in Pakistan, she serenades him with it too. It’s her best farewell concert yet.
Cher & the Loneliest Elephant, Wednesday, May 19, 8/7c, Smithsonian Channel
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