Bedi Films TV News/Feature Agency has given voice to the India’s rich environmental, cultural and religious heritage through a series of acclaimed television films since 1970. Its main goal is to highlight before the world, the magnificent aesthetic and natural wealth of India.

Bedi Films TV News/Feature Agency has achieved its present eminence by keeping abreast of international technical advancements in the field of photography and filmmaking. It has also toiled to mature intellectually, so that its films are contemporary, enlightened statements about their subjects.

The productions of Bedi Films TV News/Feature Agency reflect many-faceted competence. Sublime concepts, incisive knowledge, consummate artistry, state of the art equipment and technical skills and painstaking labor go into each venture under the personal supervision of Naresh Bedi and Rajesh Bedi.  So its natural that their films have been aired on domestic as well as leading international channels and have regularly earned awards and commendations. Their services meet the requirements of some of the world’s most demanding international broadcasters such as the BBC, Channel 13 WNET, Channel 4 Television, National Geographic, Discovery Channel, Canal Plus and Premier. The Press Information Bureau, Government of India has recognized Bedi Films as a Television News/Feature Agency and they have been commissioned to produce Corporate Films for a number of well-known clients, endorsing their claim as film producers of class.

Profile Bedi Brothers
NARESH  & RAJESH BEDI

Naresh and Rajesh, the Bedi Brothers, have worked together as filmmakers and photographers for over 38 years. They have traveled to the remotest corners of India to produce pictorial books and films on the cultural and natural heritage of the country. They established their firm Bedi Films in New Delhi, India in 1970 and nurtured it to become one of the leading producers of world class documentaries. Naresh Bedi has received international acclaim for his films on the gharial, elephant and tigers, which have been shown at prime time by major TV networks of the world.

Their work has been awarded nationally and internationally many times. Naresh won the Panda or the ‘Green Oscar’ for Best Wildlife Cameraman at the International Wildlife Film and Television Festival, “Wildscreen 1984”. He won the Silver Medal in the 28th Annual International Film and TV Festival of New York in 1985 for their film The Ganges Gharial. Their two Tiger films were nominated for the British Academy Awards 1987.  Rajesh was adjudged the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 1986 in a worldwide competition in England. Rajesh was the cinematographer of a hour long film on ‘Child Prostitutes’; for a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.  It was awarded the world’s highest television award the ‘Emmy’.
 
Naresh and Rajesh inherited their love for nature from their father Dr. Ramesh Bedi, a noted scholar of Indian medicinal plants. The Bedi Brothers grew up in the lap of nature among the Himalayan foothills of north India, keeping foxes and pythons as pets and observing leopards and elephants in their backyard.  The brothers naturally took to filmmaking and photography, so that they could bring the splendor of India’s wildernesses into people’s homes.  Naresh Bedi studied filmmaking at Asia’s foremost Film and Television Institute of India at Pune, while Rajesh Bedi excelled as a self-taught photographer. Both brothers have attained eminence in their chosen fields. Their wildlife photos and footage while spreading a strong conservation message have also made significant contributions to the subcontinent’s natural history. The Bedi Brothers in fact have risked their very lives several times to achieve these goals. The brothers are married and have settled in New Delhi’s Rajouri Garden.