MUMBAI: Venus Records’ director Ratan Jain has been elected president of the Association of Motion Pictures and Television Programme Producer of India (AMPTPP) in an election held last week.
At the meet, Ramesh Taurani and Mukesh Bhatt were elected Vice Presidents while Vashu Bhagnani and Manish Goswami have been elected Treasurers for the year ahead. Gordhan Tanwani and Ashutosh Gowariker have been elected as General Secretaries of AMPTPP.
Well known names from the industry like Madhur Bhandarkar, Ashutosh Gowariker and producer Sunil Lulla came out in support of Ratan Jain.
Says producer Vashu Bhagnani, “Jain was always concerned with the problems plaguing the film industry and he needed this platform in order to resolve issues.”
Apart from the above members, the following members were declared elected: Vikas Mohan, Bharat Shah, Kamal Kumar Barjatya, Subhash Ghai, Karan Johar, N.D.Kothari, Sajid Nadiadwala, Harry Baweja, Satish Kulkarni, Afzal Khan, Sanjay Gupta and Smriti Irani. The members who co-opted are Madhur Bhandarkar, Sunil Lulla, Anant Mahadevan, Dhilin Mehta and Shyam Bajaj.