1. Naresh Bedi is an Indian filmmaker, the eldest of the Bedi Brothers and a member of the second generation of three generations of Wildlife photographers and filmmakers.
17 Facts About Naresh Bedi
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Naresh Bedi is the first Asian to receive a Wildscreen Panda Award and the first Indian to receive a wildlife film nomination for the British Academy Film Awards.
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Naresh Bedi was honoured by the Government of India in 2015 with Padma Shri, the fourth highest Indian civilian award.
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Naresh Bedi was born in Haridwar in the present day Indian state of Uttarakhand, to Ramesh Bedi, a wildlife photographer and author of 74 books on the subject.
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Naresh Bedi started developing an interest in photography from an early age and along with his younger brother, Rajesh Bedi, pursued the interest with a Rolleicord camera, presented by their father.
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Naresh Bedi's passion helped him to cover an official visit by Jawaharlal Nehru while he was only in his teens and had his first exhibition at the age 19, sponsored by Max Mueller Bhavan, the Indian wing of Goethe-Institut.
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Naresh Bedi's films have been aired by several notable television channels such as BBC, Channel4, Canal Plus and the Discovery Channel.
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Naresh Bedi has worked with renowned filmmaker, Mira Nair, on her film, Monsoon Wedding, as the cinematographer of the second unit.
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Naresh Bedi is reported to have filmed several rare wildlife moments such as the first recording of the reproduction of gharials, nursing, multiple mating and leopard hunting of tigers and breeding of bar-headed geese.
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Naresh Bedi has filmed Tibetan and Indian wild dogs, Himalayan lynx and snow leopard for the first time.
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Naresh Bedi is known to have made innovative accessories like a 10 feet tripod for filming predatory animals.
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Criticisms have surfaced with Naresh Bedi being accused of shooting a captive tiger for a scene showing the animal in water.
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Naresh Bedi is credited with six books, co-authored by his brother, Rajesh Naresh Bedi, such as India's Wild Wonders, apart from several films he has produced so far.
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Naresh Bedi is a recipient of the Earth Watch Award of National Geographic Society and Eastman Kodak Award.
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Naresh Bedi received the Wildscreen Panda Award, popularly known as the Green Oscars, in 1984, for his cinematography for the documentary, The Ganges Gharial, the first Asian to receive the award.
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Naresh Bedi was awarded the Prithvi Ratna Award by the Centre for Media Studies and United Nations Environment Programme in 2005.
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Naresh Bedi has won the Whale Award at the Wildlife Asia Film Festival, Singapore for his contribution to wildlife films.