Pradip Krishen

Pradip Krishen

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Pradip Krishen Profile

  • Name:
  • Pradip Krishen
  • Born / Home Town:
  • Delhi
  • Spouse:
  • Arundhati Roy

Pradip Krishen Biography

Pradip Krishen is a noted environmentalist and film maker known for award winning movies like Massey Sahib in 1985, In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones in 1989 and Electric Moon in 1991. He is married to noted writer and Booker prize winner, Arundhati Roy. He has two daughters, Pia Krishen and Mithva Krishen from his first marriage. Though his movies were able to gain cult status, he gave up film field in 1995 and turned to an environmentalist and naturalist. He is the author of the noted book, Trees of Delhi: A Field Guide published in 2006.

 

Pradip Krishen was born in New Delhi in 1949. His college days were spent at Mayo College, St. Stephen's College and Balliol College, Oxford. Later he worked as a history lecturer at Ramjas College, New Delhi. Then he worked on documentaries of which works based on science were noted most. Massey Saheb was his debut movie as a director. This movie was released in Hindi. Noted theater artist, Raghubir Yadav played lead role in this movie and it happened to be his debut movie too. This movie helped him to earn best actor award at IFFI and FIPRESCI Critic's Award, Venice. He also acted in Pradeep’s second venture, In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones, an Indian English TV film released in 1989.

 

In 1992, he released his third movie, Electric Moon, which happened to be the last appearance of actress of yesterdays, Leela Naidu. Then he directed a 21 episode television series for Doordarshan, The Banyan tree. But he abandoned the project in the middle. From 1995 onwards, he started mingling with nature and trees and travelled through time in the jungles of Panchmarhi with his friend. Based on his observations, he has also published a book, Trees of Delhi: A Field Guide.

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Updated: January 24, 2014

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