The 56-year-old actor has taken over the charge from actor-director Amole Gupte, who resigned in June 2014.
"Mukesh Khanna has been made the chairperson of CFSI. There were many people in consideration but he has been finally assigned the charge.
"He has a very good credential of working in a famous children programme Shaktimaan, which was liked by kids. That paves the way for him to lead the organisation in creative capacity because we do need programmes for children," Shravan Kumar,
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