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Ajay & Vijay Bedi are the only Indians to be nominated for their wildlife film at world prestigious EMMY® Academy of Television Art & Science Award. They are also the first Youngest Asian/Indian to be honored with GREEN OSCAR. Bedi’s are the only family in India to devote their third generation Ajay & Vijay Bedi to take India’s wildlife, environment and culture films & photographs to international audience.

youngest Indians To Won Green Oscar Ajay Bedi

Third generation of Bedi's. Twin brothers Ajay & Vijay Bedi, sons of world renowned filmmaker & conservationist Naresh Bedi. They gained their formal training under their late grandfather and then father for more than 12 years. Now they have teamed together to pursue their career as young filmmakers, photographers, writers and conservationists. They graduated from the Commerce faculty of the University of Delhi and went on to complete their, Masters of Business Administration specializing in marketing. Following their MBA education, they obtained one year diploma course in Camera, Lighting and Computer Aided Movie making at the Aurobindo Institute of Mass Communication in New Delhi. They also attended the short course on Wildlife/Environment TV Programme–Production Course in October 2000 at Media Works, Bristol, UK under the Course Directorship of Jeffery Boswall.

Starting young, their experience at Bedi Films has given them exposure to master relevant skills in the field of direction, cinematography, sound recording, editing & graphics. They have been actively involved with several filming and photography projects of a various corporate films, music videos, advertisements, feature film and nature and have worked both on Film, High Definition and Digi Beta and on various equipment. Some of their independent work include a film on Wild asses – Rider of the Storm and First Out of Africa - about the Ongis Tribal of the Andaman Islands, both produced by Cicada/ HIT for the National Geographic Channel.

First indian to bagged green oscar Naresh Bedi

First indian to bagged green oscar Naresh Bedi

They have to their credit, seven minute film Do’s and Don’t for visitor to a national park, produced for special screening on the occasion of 25th anniversary of the Kanha Tiger Project. There are also two films for corporate world- a short film on ‘Shrimati Pushpawati Loomba Memorial Trust’ on the education of children of widows and a 20 minute film ‘Rugs for Life’ on leading carpet manufacturers Obeetee. The young Bedi brothers were actively involved with two 50-minute films productions of Bedi Films- Women Sadhus and India’s Dancing Bear. They also worked on in-house editing of Echoes from the Jungles – 13 & half–hour program based on wildlife and fiction.

They filmed one hour special on Tsunami disaster with American Aid workers in Sri Lanka. Film was produced for PBS by senior director Justin Albert with West Beach Entertainment, Washington D.C. 2004.

They had worked on a series “The Story of God” for BBC TV and filmed various aspects of Hinduism during the annual chariot festival of Madurai temple in South India and various aspects of Buddhism in Sri Lanka. The series is presented by renowned presenter-writer Lord Robert Winston and is being produced by Dangerous Films U.K. 2005.

Recently finished film project of Bedi Films, covering the natural history of an elusive animal, hardly seen or studied in the wild the “Fire Cat”- or the Red Panda. After working for more than two year, they had successfully filmed for the first time the behavior of Red Panda including courtship during peak winter at Singhalila National Park. The one hour film titled “Cherub of the Mist” is complete and being released on Discovery Animal Planet.

Youngest Indians To Won Green Oscar Vijay Bedi The first Indian self funded wildlife film “Cherub of the Mist” bagged 10 renowned international Awards. It is also for the first time ever that Ajay & Vijay Bedi became first Indian to be nominated for Red Panda wildlife film for Emmy® Academy of Television Art & Science Award.

Their half hour film ‘The Policing Langur’ also made them the first ever “Youngest Asians” to win the most prestigious ‘Panda Award’ or the ‘Green Oscar’, in the New Comers Category at the world’s largest Wildlife Film & Television Wildscreen Film Festival 2004 held at Bristol, U.K.

Their film ‘The Policing Langur’ has won an award at the recent ‘Vatavaran Festival – 2005’, in wildlife category.

It was a memorable moment for Bedi’s as young Bedi Brothers were awarded on the same day as their father Naresh Bedi was honored with Prithvi Ratna Award in recognition of his extraordinary contribution to filmmaking on India’s wildlife and natural history.