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● Appointed in April this year after Amole Gupte, director of child-centric films like Stanley Ka Dabba and Hawaa Hawaai , resigned in June 2014.
● Khanna played the Indian superhero Shaktimaan . In the series that began in the ’90s, he attains superhuman powers through intense meditation. The series proved crucial to Khanna’s appointment as chairperson to India’s nodal body for children’s films. “He has a very good credential of working in a famous children programme. That paves the way for him to lead the organisation in creative capacity,” PTI quoted Shravan Kumar, CEO, CFSI on Khanna’s appointment.
● Khanna also played Bhishma in BR Chopra’s epic television series Mahabharat in the 1990s.
● Khanna, in an interview last year, said “I have been to every corner in India while campaigning for BJP.” He also appeared in tele-marketing advertisements for the rudraksha. In an interview with The Hindu , Khanna suggested filmmakers make animated versions of the Ramayana and Mahabharat. “Our children need to imbibe Indian values. Fortunately, our mythological serials are educative and promote Indian culture.”
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