Ashok Kheny

Ashok Shankarappa Kheny is an Indian film producer, actor, director, businessman, politician, and owner of the Karnataka Bulldozers cricket team.

He is a chairman of the Indian Institute of Cartoonists,[1] and Managing Director of the Nandi Infrastructure Corridor Enterprises Limited based in Bengaluru.

[3] Kheny has been in the news for his scuffles with the former Prime Minister of India H. D. Deve Gowda over the land acquisition for the BMIC project.

[4][5][6] Kheny received the Outstanding Businessman of the Year from a Minority community award for 1987, conferred by the then President of the United States Ronald Reagan.

[9] He dedicated the institute 5000 square feet of premises in the heart of Bangalore to establish the Indian Cartoon Gallery, the first of its kind in India.