[2] His passion helped him to cover an official visit by Jawaharlal Nehru while he was only in his teens and had his first exhibition at the age 19, sponsored by Max Mueller Bhavan, the Indian wing of Goethe-Institut.

[2] Bedi is a graduate from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune with a gold medal for the best all round performance.

[2] Naresh Bedi joined with his brother Rajesh in the 1970s and shot several projects for National Geographic, Stern and Geo before making a film, Cobra – The Snake God,[7] which was bought by BBC and Discovery Channel.

[2] He has worked with renowned filmmaker, Mira Nair, on her film, Monsoon Wedding, as the cinematographer of the second unit.

[12][15] Bedi is reported to have filmed several rare wildlife moments such as the first recording of the reproduction of gharials, nursing, multiple mating and leopard hunting of tigers and breeding of bar-headed geese.

[5] He has filmed Tibetan and Indian wild dogs (dholes), Himalayan lynx and snow leopard for the first time.

[5] Criticisms have also surfaced with Bedi being accused of shooting a captive tiger for a scene showing the animal in water.