Valuable Moments

By Pickle December 13, 2019

Lights On: (From L to R) Singer Lata Mangeshkar, the then Union Minister Sushma Swaraj, actor Dilip Kumar, filmmaker Yash Chopra and Amit Khanna at FICCI FRAMES

Three in One: Actor Mehmood, Amit Khanna and music director Rajesh Roshan sharing a happy moment

That’s it: Amit Khanna, actor Dev Anand and Atmaran

Leaders’ Line-Up: CII DG Chandrajit Banerjee, the then Union Minister Arun Jaitely, India Today’s Aroon Purie and Amit Khanna in a conversation

On a Song: Lyricist Javed Akhtar, filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt and Amit Khanna

Top League: Actor Amitabh Bachchan, Amit Khanna and actress Poonam Dhillon in a rare picture

Friends at Work: Amit Khanna, writer Suraj Sanim and filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt sharing their thoughts

Making a Point: Amit Khanna speaking to former Minister Sushma Swaraj and actress Shabana Azmi looks 0n

Points to Ponder: Director Shyam Benegal, Filmmaker Yash Chopra and Amit Khanna in serious talk

Four Decades of Friendship: Amit Khanna with his close friends and colleagues

Think Tank: Director Basu Chatterjee and Amit Khanna

Musical Mood: Music composer Rajesh Roshan, Amit Khanna and singer Amit Kumar

First CII Big Picture Summit 2012: CII DG Chandrajit Banerjee, Andy Bird and Amit Khanna. Amit Khanna considers the First CII Big Picture Summit 2012 as the best industry gathering in this decade. He was then the Chairman of the CII’s National Committee on Media and Entertainment

Industry Veterans in One Table: Zee Entertainment’s Puneet Goenka, Sidharth Roy Kapur (Current president of Producers Guild of India), Aroon Purie, Amit Khanna, Jawahar Sircar and Uday Shankar (chairman of Star India and The Walt Disney Company India)

Beyond Borders: Amit Khanna and Frank G Wisner, former US Ambassador to India

Friends Together: Actor Shatrughan Sinha and Amit Khanna

Tall Leaders: Amit Khanna, Uday Shankar and Ronnie Screwvala in jovial mood at CII Big Picture Summit

Top Guns: Zee Entertainment’s Subhash Chandra, Yash Chopra and Amit Khanna with the Team FICCI FRAMES For the first time Amit Khanna as president of Guild brought Film industry members with FICCI to work towards industry status to film sector and organised first edition of FRAMES in 1999

On a High: Amit Khanna in jubiliant mood He became an Executive Producer at 21 with Dev Anand’s Navketan Films

Party Time: Many directors Mahesh Bhatt, Ketan Anand, Johnny Bakshi and Vikas Desai – acted in Sheeshay ka Ghar. In this picture from the sets of the film, they are seen with award winning cinematographer Manmohan Singh and acclaimed recordist Arun Sharma . The person who is on the left is Anupam Kher

Future Frame: Amit Khanna brought Mukesh Ambani to FICCI FRAMES 2004 to do a keynote on converged future of media and entertainment
What was visualised at that time is now a reality with Reliance Jio in convergence play now

Veterans of All Times: Amit Khanna, Javed Akhtar, Shyam Benegal and Ramesh Sippy

Lights On: Mahesh Bhatt, Gautam Sarin (both acted) in Amit Khanna’s Sheeshay Ka Ghar

Celebration Time: Actor Kumar Gaurav, Actress Padmini Kholapure, Amit Khanna

Green in Memory: Actor Rishi Kapoor and Amit Khanna

Three to Tango: Amit Khanna, TV Producer Manish Goswami and
filmmaker Subhash Ghai at a discussion

Bengal Bulletin: Amit Khanna with West Bengal Finance Minister
Dr Amit Mitra and film industry representatives at Vision Bengal Entertainment Conference