Film PosterWhen Khan Kluay is born, his grandmother notes that his back is "gently sloped like a banana stalk ... I suppose that is what I should name you". "Khan kluay" is Thai for "banana stalk".As a young elephant, Khan Kluay is taunted by the other elephants because he is fatherless. Naturally, Khan Kluay is curious about his father, and he's told that his father is a war elephant for the king.So Khan Kluay wants to find his father. Still a young elephant, he wanders off to begin his search. He is soon captured by a Burmese raiding party. In trying to escape from the Burmese camp, the young elephant is befriended by a Siamese boy prince,Naresun, who has been ransomed to the Burmese. Naresuan has the ability to calm Khan Kluay into thinking clearly, and Khan Kluay makes his escape.A weakened Khan Kluay then comes upon a village where humans and elephants are working together. He is befriended by a young elephant cow, Chaba-Kaew, but is then chained up until he is tamed. Khan Kluay soon learns to value the humans who have captured him. Under the training of a wise, old mahout, he becomes bigger and stronger.A local warlord comes around annually to collect tax from the village, and his taxes have become greedier each year. The village rebels, and with the humans and elephants working together, the warlord and his beasts are defeated.The call then goes out from the king of Siam for elephants. Khan Kluay is taken to the palace. There, he is seen by his mother, who calls out to him. Khan Kluay goes wild in trying to break free from his chains to meet his mother. Naresuan notices this, and remembers Khan Kluay from his boyhood. The king is able to calm Khan Kluay, and from then on Khan Kluay serves as the personal war elephant of the king.In battle, Khan Kluay meets a giant Burmese war elephant with fiery eyes that was responsible for the death of Khan Kluay's father, and Khan Kluay gets a chance to acquit himself in battle for the glory of the Siamese kingdom, and take revenge.In the end, Khan Kluay avenges his father and kills the Burmese Elephant. After that, Khan is released to the wild to spend the rest of his life with the ones he loves.
Snapshot 1 From Film Khan Kluay
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