National award-winning performer as well as self-determining movie maker Nandita Das, who has acted in several movies in English, Hindi, Oriya, Urdu, Bengali, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada, has been selected the new president of the Children's Films Society of India (CFSI). The residence of her engagement, subject to the requirements of Rule 18 of the aforesaid Rules, shall be for a stage of three years.

CFSI is a nodal Government of India association enthusiastic to providing wholesome delight for children from beginning to end motion picture in addition to television, with the objective of broadening their horizon and mitigating the role of movie as well as television. Earlier, the post was held by actress-social activist Nafisa Ali. It fell vacant when she resigned to challenge the Lok Sabha election from Lucknow on the Samajwadi Party ticket this year.

Nandita, generally accredited for her astonishing performances in Fire (1996), Earth (1998), Bawandar (2000) as well as Aamaar Bhuvan (2002), is the descendant of distinguished Indian painter Jatin Das. The 39-year-old recently donned the director’s hat for Firaaq (2008), which has won a quantity of national furthermore intercontinental awards. She is a B.A. (Hons) in Geography as well as M.A. (Social Work) from Delhi University.