Bollywood
actor
Om
Puri
will
be
taking
over
as
chairperson
of
the
National
Film
Development
Corporation
Limited
(NFDC).
The
post
has
been
lying
vacant
for
almost
a
year
following
the
resignation
of
film
distributor
and
financier
Manmohan
Shetty.
Om
Puri's
selection
has
come
at
a
time
when
the
Information
and
Broadcasting
ministry
has
assigned
NDFC
the
job
of
commissioning
a
film
to
mark
the
150th
year
of
the
1857
Uprising,
which
is
to
be
directed
by
Vinay
Shukla.
The
film
is
to
be
produced
by
Firoz
Nadiadwala
in
collaboration
with
NFDC
and
is
based
on
Tantiya
Tope
to
be
portrayed
by
Bollywood
actor
Akshay
Kumar.