21 Facts About Amit Khanna

Amit Khanna is an Indian film producer, director, writer, and journalist.

Amit Khanna was the founder chairman of Reliance Entertainment, former president of the Producers Guild of India, and the founder trustee of the Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image.

Amit Khanna is credited with having coined the term Bollywood.

Amit Khanna completed his higher education from St Stephen's College, Delhi.

Amit Khanna has been involved with media since his school days at St Columba's School, Delhi and has worked in theatre, radio, television, journalism, and films.

Amit Khanna began his career as an executive producer with actor-producer Dev Anand's Navketan Films in 1971 and subsequently produced films such as Man Pasand, Sheeshay Ka Ghar and Shesh.

Amit Khanna has written over 400 film and non-film songs and several film scripts.

Amit Khanna began actively working in television as a producer-director in the eighties and set up Plus Channel in 1990 which was India's first entertainment conglomerate and the largest independent producer of TV programmes.

Amit Khanna left Plus as its Managing Director to launch Reliance Entertainment.

Amit Khanna has served on the Central Board of Film Certification and the Film Import Selection Committee, as a vice president of the Film Producers Guild of India and has been on the committees of the Indian Broadcasting Foundation, Indian Music Industry and Film Federation of India.

Amit Khanna helped found the Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image.

Amit Khanna is the only permanent member of the Council of Management of the Producers Guild of India.

Presently retired from all film activities and organisational responsibilities, Amit Khanna devotes all his time solely to writing.

Amit Khanna started his film career as executive producer with Dev Anand's Navketan Films in 1971.

In 1989 Amit Khanna helped set up Plus Channel, a television programming house, and joined it as managing director and Group Editor.

In 1996 Amit Khanna won two awards as film producer at the 44th National Film Awards: Best Feature Film in Hindi for Gudia and Best Feature Film in Urdu for Sardari Begum.

In 2000 Amit Khanna resigned from Plus Channel to join Reliance Entertainment where he served as chairman for 15 years.

Amit Khanna composed lyrics for around 200 songs released in music albums by singers Nazia and Zoheb Hassan, Sharon Prabhakar, Salma Agha, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Mahendra Kapoor and Shafqat Ali Khan.

Amit Khanna was the lyricist for the opening theme song of ten Indian television series, including Buniyaad, Dekh Bhai Dekh and Swabhimaan.

Amit Khanna has been a guest lecturer at New York University and the University of Southern California.

Amit Khanna was on the selection panel of the Indian Panorama thrice.