Pradip Krishen | |
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| Born | 1949 (1949) (age77) New Delhi, India |
| Other names | Pradeep Krishen |
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| Years active | 1985–1995 |
| Notable work | In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones (1989) |
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| Children | 2 |
| Awards | National Film Award |
Pradip Krishen (born 1949) is an Indian filmmaker, naturalist and environmentalist. He directed three films,Massey Sahib in 1985,In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones in 1989 andElectric Moon forChannel 4, UK in 1991. His films have won significant Indian and international awards.In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones acquired cult status in the years after it was made.[1]
In 1985, he marriedArundhati Roy who also acted in his films.[2]He subsequently gave up filmmaking, and since 1995, has worked as a naturalist and environmentalist.[3][4]
Pradip Krishen was born in New Delhi in 1949 and educated atMayo College andSt. Stephen's College, then atBalliol College, Oxford. He taught history atRamjas College ofUniversity of Delhi, New Delhi.[5]
Before becoming a documentary filmmaker (Krishen made popular science documentaries).
Krishen began work on a 21 episode television series intended forDoordarshan calledBargad / The Banyan Tree,[13] a project he was forced to abandon before completion.
Starting in 1995, Krishen began studying trees[14] and spending time in the jungles ofPanchmarhi in Madhya Pradesh, with the help of a forester friend.[15] Krishen taught himself field botany and began identifying and photographing Delhi's trees, extensively exploring the city's green habitat. In the course of his work, Krishen led numerous public "tree-walks" on Sunday mornings[16] and became a keen ecological gardener. Krishen has created "native-plant" gardens in Delhi, west Rajasthan, and Garhwal, and is currently working on a large rewilding scheme atRao Jodha Desert Rock Park nearMehrangarh fort inJodhpur, Rajasthan. He was briefly associated with theAga Khan Trust in an eco-initiative in theSunder Nursery in New Delhi.[17] In 2014, Krishen began work on a new gardening initiative at Abha Mahal inNagaur Fort, Rajasthan. The following year, he took over as Project Director of the gardens of theCalico Museum in Ahmedabad, and most recently, leads a team of horticulturists and landscape architects to restore an extensive set of sand dunes in Jaipur city, Rajasthan.
Krishen's bookTrees of Delhi: A Field Guide, published byDorling Kindersley/Penguin Group in 2006, met with popular and critical acclaim, and became a best-seller inIndia.[18][19]
Krishen's second bookJungle Trees of Central India, published by Penguin India, was released in 2014.
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