TV actor Gajendra Chauhan is expected to take charge as FTII chairman on Thursday after an unprecedented and unsuccessful 193-day strike by the students opposing his appointment.
The agitating students will meet officials from the information and broadcasting ministry on October 1.
Amid dramatic scenes and vociferous demonstrations by the Film and Television Institute of India students, television actor and Bharatiya Janata Party member Gajendra Chauhan on Thursday took charge as chairman of the premiere institute in Pune, even as police detained nearly 40 protesters who were calling him a "political appointee".
'The government says it is trying to improve the institute, but its latest appointments say otherwise.'
Gajendra Chauhan is just one the many troubles that ail the national film institute. But all may not be lost yet.
