Days after profitable the National Award for the Best Film for his directorial debut Rocketry: The Nambi Effect, R Madhavan has now been appointed as the brand new President of the Film & Television Institute of India. The actor has changed filmmaker Shekhar Kapur within the place. (Also Read: R Madhavan on Rocketry profitable National Award: We had not gained something until the tip, had nearly misplaced hope)
Madhavan introduced as FTII President
Information & Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur took to X (previously Twitter) on Friday night to announce that Madhavan has been appointed as the brand new FTII President.
He wrote, “Heartiest congratulations to @ActorMadhavan ji on being nominated as President of @FTIIOfficial and Chairman of the governing council. I’m sure that your vast experience & strong ethics will enrich this institute, bring positive changes, & take it to a higher level. My best wishes to you.”
Madhavan reposted Anurag’s tweet and wrote in his response on X, “Thank you so very much for the honor and kind wishes @ianuragthakur Ji. I will do my very best to live up to all the expectations. (namaste emojis)”
The official Instagram deal with of FTII additionally reposted the 2 tweets.
About FTII
FTII, located in Pune, Maharashtra, falls underneath the purview of the Central Government’s Information & Broadcasting Ministry. Established in 1960, the institute provides programs in movie enhancing, path cinematography, audiography, appearing, artwork path, and laptop graphics and animation.
Shekhar Kapur was the final FTII President. Actor Roshan Taneja was the primary one, adopted by the likes of cartoonist RK Laxman, filmmakers Shyam Benegal, Mrinal Sen, Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Mahesh Bhatt, BP Singh, Saeed Akhtar Mirza, actors Girish Karnad, Vinod Khanna, Gajendra Chauhan, Anupam Kher, and screenwriter UR Ananthamurthy.
Actors like Jaya Bachchan, Shatrughan Sinha, Raza Murad, Mithun Chakraborty, Naseeruddin Shah, Mukesh Khanna, Rajkummar Rao, Danny Denzongpa, Rakesh Bedi, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Satish Kaushik, and Tom Alter have been a part of the institute’s notable alumni.
About R Madhavan
Madhavan is a Tamil and Hindi movie actor. He made his Tamil cinema debut with Mani Ratnam’s 2000 romantic movie Alaipayuthey. The subsequent 12 months, he made his Bollywood debut together with Dia Mirza in Gautham Vasudev Menon’s cult romantic movie Rehna Hai Terre Dil Mein. He made his directorial debut enjoying former ISRO scientist Nambi Narayanan in Rocketry: The Nambi Effect final 12 months, that fetched him his first National Award for Best Film.
Source: www.hindustantimes.com