‘Dussehra-day’ grand opening of ‘CINTAA Tower’, in presence of galaxy of senior celeb-guests like Asha Parekh, Subhash Ghai, Shabana Azmi by Chaitanya Padukone

Finally, after a long patient wait of  12 years, the office of  CINTAA  (Cine and TV Artistes’ Association)  will shift from its current office-space premises in Andheri to the plush ‘five-storeyed’ classy CINTAA Tower in Four Bungalows, Ambivali area in Andheri West. On the auspicious occasion of Dussehra Day. (October 24 ) the new impressive building premises will be formally inaugurated by veteran celeb-actress Asha Parekh. It may be recalled that altruistic-natured Asha-jee was the former President of CINTAA  ( from 1994 up to 2000) and she used to be actively involved in the support and welfare activities of the Cine and TV artists Special invitees at the above inaugural event include eminent veteran filmmaker Subhash Ghai as the Guest of Honour, Special Guest Local MLA Dr, Bharati Lavekar,  film-fraternity guests iconic actors Shabana Azmi, Raj Babbar, Jackie Shroff, Suniel Shetty, Pankaj Tripathi, Boman Irani, Johnny Lever, Annu Kapoor and many more.

Popular bass-voiced actor Amit Behl, who is the honorary General Secretary of CINTAA, shares that besides Asha Parekh, even legendary stars like  Amjad Khan, Mithun Chakraborty, Dara Singh, Durga Khote, Amrish Puri, Balraj Sahni, Johnny Lever and Jairaj have also played an active role in making this CINTAA Tower Office a  concrete reality. Shares Amit, “ “In 1991, Dilip Kumar, Sunil Dutt, Mithun Chakraborty, Amjad Khan, and Asha Parekh set up the Cine Artiste Welfare Trust as a sister concern of CINTAA, to encourage donations for the welfare of artistes. This tower is actually a “CAWT” project, The foundation stone of CINTAA Tower was laid by ‘late’ Dilip Kumar-saab and Aamir Khan in the year 2011. After 12 years the dream has turned into a magnificent reality  The new address CINTAA Tower is a state-of-the-art five-storeyed building with a welfare center, a high-tech auditorium, a conference room board rooms, a well-stocked library, subsidized cafeteria, a resting-waiting-lounge and even workshop rooms.

A ‘Wall of Fame’ adorning the cafeteria ---is a sentimental recall-reminder of the yesteryear legends in all their brilliant glory. Basically, it is almost like a ‘welcome-to-happy-second-home’ for our CINTAA members ( around 10000 members )!  We will also create  Fame Frames on the Cinema Corridor with classy pictures of contemporary stars, including Shah Rukh Khan, Aamir Khan, Salman Khan, Akshay Kumar, Ajay Devgn, Ranbir Kapoor, Alia Bhatt and many more.”, discloses Amit Behl.  Currently, eminent actor Manoj Joshi is the Honorary President of the CINTAA  (in place of former CINTAA President--revered eminent senior actor Vikram Gokhale who passed away in November 2022)   Popular actress Preeti Sapru is the Honorary Chairperson of “CAWT “ while seasoned actor Darshan Jariwala is the Honorary Gen, Secretary of ‘CAWT. and Amit Behl is the Treasurer.