Pradip Krishen

Education

Pradip Krishen is born in New Delhi in 1949 and educated at Mayo College and Saint Stephen"s College, then at Balliol College, Oxford. He taught history at Ramjas College of University of Delhi, New Delhi.

Career

He has directed three films, Massey Sahib in 1985, In Which Annie Gives lieutenant Those Ones in 1989 and Electric Moon for Channel 4, United Kingdom in 1991. He subsequently gave up filmmaking, and since 1995, has worked as a naturalist and environmentalist. Film-making Before becoming a documentary filmmaker (Krishen made popular science documentaries).

Massey Sahib: 1985 Hindi movie of Francis Massey, who is the "English Type Babu" at the Deputy Commissioner"s office, in a small, tribal district town of Central India in 1929.

In Which Annie Gives lieutenant Those Ones: 1989 Indian English television film, in which it captured the anguish among the students prevailing in professional institutions. Electric Moon: A 1992 Channel 4 production, spoofed game-park tourists, erstwhile royals, social pretence, and ecology.

Krishen began work on a 21 episode television series intended for Doordarshan called Bargad / The Banyan Tree, a project Krishen was forced to abandon before completion, due to interference from the production house he was working foreign Environmental work Starting in 1995, Krishen began studying trees and spending time in the jungles of Panchmarhi in Madhya Pradesh, with the help of a forester friend.

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 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 around Mehrangarh fort in Jodhpur, Rajasthan. He was briefly associated with the Aga Khan Trust in an eco-initiative in the Sunder Nursery in New Delhi.

Krishen"s book Trees of Delhi: A Field Guide, published by Dorling Kindersley/Penguin Group in 2006, met with popular and critical acclaim, and became a best-seller in India.

Krishen"s second book "Jungle Trees of Central India", published by Penguin India, was released in 2014.

Achievements

• His films have won significant Indian and international awards, and In Which Annie Gives lieutenant Those Ones acquired cult status in the years after it was made. This film won "Best Actor" Award for Raghuvir Yadav at the Delhi International Film Festival (1986) and the film won a FIPRESCI prize at the Venice Film Festival 1987. lieutenant is based on the life of students of School of Planning and Architecture At the 1988 National Film Award it won the award for Best Feature Film in English as well as Best Screenplay for Arundhati Royal At the 40th National Film Awards, the film won the award for Best Feature Film in English.