NEW DELHI: Matinee idol and actor-turned producer Prosenjit Chatterjee has been named the first chairman of the Kolkata chapter of the Film and Television Producers Guild of India which was launched earlier this week in the presence of luminaries from the Bengali entertainment diaspora.

Expressing his pleasure at being accorded this responsibility, Chatterjee expressed his desire to summon a meeting shortly to discuss the modus operandi of kick-starting the activities of the Guild Kolkata Chapter.

Mrinal Sen, a living legend of Indian cinema and member of the Guild expressed satisfaction that on his completion of 60 years in the Indian entertainment industry, such a constructive initiative had been undertaken by the Guild.

Other Guild members who attended the conclave included Arijit Dutta and Tapan Biswas.

The Kolkata Chapter of the Guild has been formulated with the principal objective of encompassing large domains of the Indian entertainment industry and to project it as an All India body in the altruistic sense of the term.

The Guild was established in 1954 by the stalwarts of the Indian film industry.