MUMBAI: Writer-director Vinay Shukla, known for his films like Mirch (2010), Godmother (1999) and Virasat (1997), has been elected as the incumbent president of the Film Writers Association of India (FWAI) in its 56th General Body Election which was held recently.

Other office bearers of the FWAI is as follows: vice presidents: Rajesh Dubey and Sameer Anjan, general secretary; Kamlesh Pandey, treasurer; Sudhakar Sharma, Robin Bhatt and Naini Kazmi, joint secretary.

Aakash Jain, Abhijeet Deshpande, Anjum Rajabali, Atul Tiwari, Jalees Sherwani, Kamal Pandey, Preiti Mamgain, Pushpa Verma, Rajashree, Reema Kagti, Saket Chowdhary, Sandeep Shrivastava, Sharad Tripathi and Zoya Akhtar have been chosen as executive committee members.