Ftii Chairman Gajendra Chauhan

Anupam Kher, the newly appointed Chairman of the Pune-based Film and Television Institute (FTII), says he will work towards sharing his experience with students rather than setting agendas as an administrator.

The Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) needs a good administrator, more than a good actor, its former Chairman Gajendra Chauhan said in reaction to veteran actor Anupam Kher's appointment to the post on Wednesday.

Anupam Kher will take over as the new chief of top film training institute FTII in place of actor Gajendra Chauhan, whose appointment in 2015 triggered massive student protests.

In a significant achievement for Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, the Association of Indian Universities (AIU) has equated six PG Diploma Programmes of the Institute with Master's Degree.

Actor Gajendra Chauhan, who was at the centre of a controversy over his appointment as the FTII chairman, essayed the role of mythical character Ravan at a grand Dussehra celebrations here today.

Pune's Film and Television Institute of India today announced several new short courses on film-making to be organised across the country. The first such course by the country's premier film school will be conducted in Guwahati this month, FTII chairman Gajendra Chauhan said.

Students of new batch joining the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) in Pune, which had last year witnessed strident protests against appointment of Gajendra Chauhan as chairman, will have to sign "general conduct" declaration promising to maintain "decorum and decency" on campus and not to "insult" faculty and staffers.

After his visit to Nagpur, Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union (JNUSU) president Kanhaiya Kumar will next week meet the students of FTII here who had protested against Gajendra Chauhan's appointment as the chairman of the institute.

Disgruntled BJP lawmaker Shatrughan Sinha has said that he had been willing to accept the post of 'interim chairman' of Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) here and that he had also requested the current chairman Gajendra Chauhan to step down to end the stalemate with protesting students.

Amid slogans of 'Go back, go back", Gajendra Chauhan arrived at the prestigious Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) in Pune for the first time since he was controversially appointed its Chairman in June last year.

Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) students on Tuesday called censor board chairman Pahlaj Nihalani as the "propaganda machine" of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government and urged Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore to seek his resignation.

Amid reports of a likely protest by Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) students at the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) venue, the government today said that they were hopeful that the students would not do anything that will hurt the country's image at a global platform.

After calling off their 139-day strike and getting eminent filmmakers to join their protest, the FTII students are planning their next move. They have dropped hints about "big plans" around the upcoming International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa.

"Looking at the ministry's unrelenting approach and the amount of our valuable time spent, we have decided to end the strike and resume classes. However, our voices will not shut, but grow louder. The protests shall continue democratically and in the peaceful manner as they have," she an FTII student

BJP member Gajendra Chauhan, whose appointment as FTII chairman triggered protests by the institute's students, today lauded their decision to end the 139-day strike.

Anupam Kher, the newly appointed Chairman of the Pune-based Film and Television Institute (FTII), says he will work towards sharing his experience with students rather than setting agendas as an administrator.

The Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) needs a good administrator, more than a good actor, its former Chairman Gajendra Chauhan said in reaction to veteran actor Anupam Kher's appointment to the post on Wednesday.

Anupam Kher will take over as the new chief of top film training institute FTII in place of actor Gajendra Chauhan, whose appointment in 2015 triggered massive student protests.

In a significant achievement for Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, the Association of Indian Universities (AIU) has equated six PG Diploma Programmes of the Institute with Master's Degree.

Actor Gajendra Chauhan, who was at the centre of a controversy over his appointment as the FTII chairman, essayed the role of mythical character Ravan at a grand Dussehra celebrations here today.

Pune's Film and Television Institute of India today announced several new short courses on film-making to be organised across the country. The first such course by the country's premier film school will be conducted in Guwahati this month, FTII chairman Gajendra Chauhan said.

Students of new batch joining the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) in Pune, which had last year witnessed strident protests against appointment of Gajendra Chauhan as chairman, will have to sign "general conduct" declaration promising to maintain "decorum and decency" on campus and not to "insult" faculty and staffers.

After his visit to Nagpur, Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union (JNUSU) president Kanhaiya Kumar will next week meet the students of FTII here who had protested against Gajendra Chauhan's appointment as the chairman of the institute.

Disgruntled BJP lawmaker Shatrughan Sinha has said that he had been willing to accept the post of 'interim chairman' of Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) here and that he had also requested the current chairman Gajendra Chauhan to step down to end the stalemate with protesting students.

Amid slogans of 'Go back, go back", Gajendra Chauhan arrived at the prestigious Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) in Pune for the first time since he was controversially appointed its Chairman in June last year.

Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) students on Tuesday called censor board chairman Pahlaj Nihalani as the "propaganda machine" of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government and urged Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore to seek his resignation.

Amid reports of a likely protest by Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) students at the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) venue, the government today said that they were hopeful that the students would not do anything that will hurt the country's image at a global platform.

After calling off their 139-day strike and getting eminent filmmakers to join their protest, the FTII students are planning their next move. They have dropped hints about "big plans" around the upcoming International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa.

"Looking at the ministry's unrelenting approach and the amount of our valuable time spent, we have decided to end the strike and resume classes. However, our voices will not shut, but grow louder. The protests shall continue democratically and in the peaceful manner as they have," she an FTII student

BJP member Gajendra Chauhan, whose appointment as FTII chairman triggered protests by the institute's students, today lauded their decision to end the 139-day strike.