Ramesh Sippy to head Film and TV Producers Guild

Ramesh Sippy to head Film and TV Producers Guild

NEW DELHI: Eminent filmmaker Ramesh Sippy has been unanimously elected as President of The Film & Television Producers Guild of India Ltd.

The election took place at the meeting of Guild Council of Management held immediately after the 56th Annual General Meeting on 25 September in Mumbai.

Five vice presidents were elected: Mukesh Bhatt; Rakesh Roshan; Karan Johar; Vipul Shah; and Siddharth Roy Kapur. Manish Goswami and Ashim Samanta were elected Treasurer.

Bobby Bedi is Chairman of the Delhi Chapter, while Goutam Ghose heads the Kolkata Chapter and D Suresh Babu will head the Hyderabad Chapter.

Other members of the newly elected Council of Management of Guild are:

1. Dr. Yash Chopra
2. Manmohan Shetty
3. Kamal Kumar Barjatya
4. Ravi Chopra
5. Amit Khanna
6. Raj Tilak
7. Dheeraj Kumar
8. Sushilkumar Agrawal
9. Rajkumar Kohli
10. A G Nadiadwala
11. Subhash Ghai
12. Ashutosh Gowariker
13. Vishal Bharadwaj
14. Farhan Akhtar; and
15. Prosenjit Chatterjee

Kiran Shantaram and Randhir Kapoor are permanent invitees.