Click to play videoNew Delhi: Wildlife filmmakers and brothers Ajay Bedi and Vijay Bedi have won the best conservation and environmental film award at the 29th International Wildlife Film Festival at Montana for The Cherub of the Mist.
Their film, which competed with 272 movies in the competition, on the rare Red Panda took two years of hard work to complete. The elusive animal lives deep in the Singalila National Park near Sikkim and even surveys fail to find it.
"A recent survey in the Sangalila Park couldn't find a single Red Panda. I am so happy to find the Red Panda and hope our material can be used by scientists for study," says Ajay.
The brothers tracked and filmed the Panda in bad weather and regular obstructions. Filming the wild has been a passion in their family for three generations.
Their grandfather Dr Ramesh Bedi was a pioneer filmmaker and his sons Naresh and Rajesh were the first Indians to win the Green Oscar in 1984.
Naresh, Ajay and Vijay's father, guided the brothers on the film and the award has made him proud. "They had to face a lot of difficulty, as no international broadcaster was willing to support the project," says Naresh.
The female Red Panda gets pregnant only once a year, and this has put the species on the brink of extinction. The film has captured many aspects of the Panda’s life: right from the birth of a young one to the animal's daily routine
What the brothers want now is a platform to screen the film and bring the Red Panda to limelight.
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