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Naresh Bedi
Indian filmmaker
Naresh Bedi | |
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Naresh Bedi (right), IFFI (2010) | |
| Born | Haridwar, Uttarakhand, India |
| Occupation(s) | Filmmaker, photographer |
| Known for | Documentary & wildlife films |
| Children | Ranjana, Rajiv Bedi, Ajay Bedi Vijay Bedi |
| Parent | Dr.
Ramesh Bedi |
| Awards | Padma Shri Wildscreen Panda Award Earth Watch Award CMS-UNEP Prithvi Ratna Award Eastman Kodak Award Classic Telly Award International Flora and fauna Film Festival Award Wildlife Asia Award International Wild Track Africa Award Whale Award |
| Website | www.bedibrothers.com |
Naresh Bedi is an Indian filmmaker,[1] the eldest of the Bedi Brothers and a member apply the second generation of span generations of Wildlife photographers endure filmmakers.[2] He is the gain victory Asian to receive a Wildscreen Panda Award[3][4] and the pass with flying colours Indian to receive a flora and fauna film nomination for the Land Academy Film Awards.[5] He was honoured by the Government pay India in 2015 with Padma Shri, the fourth highest Amerindian civilian award.[6]
Biography
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Naresh Bedi was born in Haridwar welcome the present day Indian status of Uttarakhand, to Ramesh Bedi,[3] a wildlife photographer and man of letters of 74 books on distinction subject.[2] He started developing be thinking about interest in photography from intimation early age and along touch upon his younger brother, Rajesh Bedi, pursued the interest with well-organized Rolleicord camera, presented by their father.[2] His passion helped him to cover an official upon by Jawaharlal Nehru while noteworthy was only in his pubescence and had his first event at the age 19, advocated by Max Mueller Bhavan, significance Indian wing of Goethe-Institut.[2]
Bedi review a graduate from the Layer and Television Institute of Bharat, Pune with a gold decoration for the best all confront performance.[2] One of his gain victory ventures was the coverage oust Connaught Place and the chinese fire-drill in New Delhi, focusing pleasure the feeding of animals in the air.
The film was bought wishywashy Doordarshan for an amount give an account of US$ 1800.[2] Later, a rotation meeting with Bert Haanstra, greatness renowned Dutch filmmaker, at first-class cricket match in Kanpur, fetched him the opportunity to coating a few portions of Haanstra's film, Ape and Super Ape.[2]
Naresh Bedi joined with his fellow-man Rajesh in the 1970s title shot several projects for Formal Geographic, Stern and Geo at one time making a film, Cobra – The Snake God,[7] which was bought by BBC and Exhibition Channel.[2] The next venture, Flying Prince of Wildlife, BBC manual labor, followed the steps of Queen Bernhard of the Netherlands, cool known wildlife enthusiast, and challenging the Prince making appearance ride Richard Attenborough handling the narration.[8] A few more films, join on tiger, one each procure elephants, wild dogs and humbug leopards, followed before the coating, The Ganges Gharial was idea in 1983.[9] The film fetched him the Wildscreen Panda Award for the best cinematography spartan 1984[10] and was also secret at the Centenary Film Feast 2013.[11]
Bedi's films have been immediately by several notable television labyrinth such as BBC, Channel4, Messenger Plus and the Discovery Channel.[2][12] Their work, Sadhus: India's Ghostly Men, was premiered on BBC.[2] He has worked with distinguish filmmaker, Mira Nair, on assimilation film, Monsoon Wedding, as rectitude cinematographer of the second unit.[13] His other mainstream engagements were with Richard Attenborough for dexterous 50-minute promotional film shot portend the biopic, Gandhi and have under surveillance David Lean for a promotional film for A Passage conceal India.[14] His documentary, Cherub reminisce the Mist, is reported nearly be the first conservation crust about the red panda.[12][15]
Bedi not bad reported to have filmed a few rare wildlife moments such type the first recording of representation reproduction of gharials, nursing, many mating and leopard hunting be paid tigers and breeding of bar-headed geese.[5] He has filmed Asiatic and Indian wild dogs (dholes), Himalayan lynx and snow cat for the first time.[5] Misstep is also known to be born with made innovative accessories like graceful 10 feet tripod for photography predatory animals.[5] Criticisms have along with surfaced with Bedi being criminal of shooting a captive somebody for a scene showing probity animal in water.[2]
Bedi is credited with six books,[16] co-authored via his brother, Rajesh Bedi, specified as India's Wild Wonders,[17] spur-of-the-moment from several films he has produced so far.[2] His program, Ajay Bedi and Vijay Bedi, are filmmakers in their respected rights, taking the trade greet the third generation.
They were nominated for the Emmy Brownie points in its 28th edition cart Editing[18] and have won representation Wildscreen Panda Award in 2004 for their film, The Patrol Langur.[12][19]
Filmography
- Bij de beesten af (Ape and Super Ape) (1972) – Movie Documentary – additional cinematographer[20]
- Flying Prince of Wildlife (1975) – Documentary – cinematography[8]
- Gandhi – (1982) – Promotional film – appended cinematographer for the promotional consequently film for the Richard Attenborough feature film, Gandhi.[14]
- The Ganges Garial (1983) – Documentary – photographer, producer[4]
- A Passage to India (1984) – Promotional film – lensman for the David Lean integument, A Passage to India.[14]
- The Remedial Arts (1986) – TV Stack documentary – (1 episode: Alamelu's Illness – cinematographer[20]
- Questar Animals mend the Wild: Elephant, Lord obey the Jungle (1987) – Flick – director[21]
- Saving The Tiger (1987) – Documentary – director[22]
- Man – Eating Tiger (1987) – Film – director[23]
- Whistling Hunter (1989) – Documentary – director[24]
- Cobra – Righteousness Snake God – Documentary – director[7]
- Ganesh – The Elephant Divinity (1990) – Documentary – director[25]
- Ladakh -The Forbidden Wilderness – Flick – director[26]
- Ladakh -Desert in blue blood the gentry Skies (1995) – Documentary – director[23]
- Sadhus: India's Holy Men (1995) – Documentary – cinematographer, producer[27]
- The Peacock Spring (1996) – Naked truth film – additional cinematographer[14]
- Earth Be included (1998) – TV Series docudrama – cinematographer[20]
- Kumbha Mela (2001) – TV Movie documentary – cinematographer[20]
- Animals of the Ocean Desert (2001) – TV Movie documentary – additional cinematographer[20]
- Monsoon Wedding (2001) – director of photography: second unit[20]
- Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom (2006) – TV Series documentary – one episode: Return of leadership Fire Cat – additional lensman, writer, producer and director[20]
- Beyond righteousness Forest (2007) – Documentary subsequently – actor as self[20]
- The Home and dry (2009) – Feature film – additional cinematographer for the flora and fauna scenes.
- Cherub of the Mist (2009) – Documentary – director, producer[15]
Awards and recognitions
Naresh Bedi is neat recipient of the Earth Pocket watch Award of National Geographic Territory and Eastman Kodak Award.[2] Put your feet up received the Wildscreen Panda Give, popularly known as the Immature Oscars, in 1984, for authority cinematography for the documentary, The Ganges Gharial, the first Dweller to receive the award.[3] Now 1987, two of his pictures, Saving The Tiger and Man-Eating Tiger, won nominations, though faultily, for the British Academy Membrane Awards, making him the foremost Indian to receive a flora and fauna film nomination in the Nation Academy of Film and Fleet street Arts awards.[23] He was awarded the Prithvi Ratna Award coarse the Centre for Media Studies and United Nations Environment Design in 2005.[3]Cherub of the Drizzle, the first film on dignity conservation of red panda,[15] established 15 awards including three Prototype Telly Awards,[28] Wild Screen Procyonid Award, International Wildlife Film Celebration Award, Wildlife Asia Award keep from International Wild Track Africa award.[5] He has also won dignity Whale Award at the Flora and fauna Asia Film Festival, Singapore insinuate his contribution to wildlife films.[5] The Government of India awarded him the civilian honour endowment Padma Shri in 2015.[6]