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Sharafat gayi tel Lene to be released by Sony Pictures
NEW DELHI: The fun “con-com” film Sharafat Gayi Tel Lene produced by Devinder Jain and Akhilesh Jain and directed by Gurmmeet Singh is to be distributed by Sony Pictures India.
The film starring Zayed Khan, Rannvijay Singh, Tina Desai and Anupam Kher with music by Meet Bros Anjjan and Dhruv Dhalla, will release pan India on 16 January 2015.
The film is about Prithvi Khuranna (Zayed Khan), a middle class working professional who walks into an ATM booth and discovers that his bank balance has jumped from less than Rs. 5000 to over Rs. 100 crores. Obviously this windfall comes at a huge price. He receives a call from underworld’s most notorious don, ‘Dawood’.
Sharafat Gayi Tel Lene is a comic caper set in the nation’s capital as the lives of three youngsters go topsy-turvy when they try and track down the origin of this mysterious money. The catchy first song “Selfiyaan” is already out online and is a tongue-and-cheek commentary on the ubiquitous social phenomenon of selfies.
Trinity Group was established in 1979 and has a diverse businesses portfolio of Insurance, Re-insurance, infrastructure, retail and have now ventured into the entertainment industry. Sharafat Gayi Tel Lene is their maiden venture. The producers are excited about this film and assure total entertainment for the masses worldwide.
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Remembering Gyan Sahay, the lens behind film, television and advertising
From a puppet rabbit selling poppadums to Hindi cinema, he framed it all.
MUMBAI: There are careers, and then there are canvases. Gyan Sahay, the veteran cinematographer, director, and producer who passed away on 10 March 2026 in Mumbai, had one of the latter. Over several decades in the Indian film and television industry, he turned lenses, lights, and the occasional puppet rabbit into something approaching art.
A graduate of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) in Pune, Sahay built his reputation as a director of photography across a career that stretched from the early 1970s all the way to the digital age. He was the kind of craftsman who understood that a well-composed shot is not merely a technical achievement but a quiet act of storytelling.
For most Indians of a certain age, however, Sahay will forever be the man behind the rabbit. His direction of the iconic long-running television commercial for Lijjat Papad, featuring its now-legendary puppet bunny, gave the country one of its most cheerfully persistent advertising images. It was the sort of work that sneaks into the national subconscious and takes up permanent residence.
His big-screen credits as cinematographer include Anokhi Pehchan (1972), Pagli (1974), Pas de Deux (1981), and Hum Farishte Nahin (1988). In 1999, he stepped behind a different kind of camera altogether, making his directorial debut with Sar Ankhon Par, a drama that featured Vikas Bhalla and Shruti Ulfat, with a cameo by Shah Rukh Khan for good measure.
On television, Sahay was particularly prized for his command of multi-camera production setups, a skill that made him a go-to technician for large-scale shows and reality programmes. In an industry that has never been especially patient with complexity, he was the calm hand on the rig.
In later life, Sahay turned teacher. He participated regularly in masterclasses and Digi-Talks, often hosted by organisations such as Bharatiya Chitra Sadhna, sharing hard-won wisdom on cinematography, the comedy of timing in a shot, and the sweeping changes brought by the shift from celluloid to digital. He was also said to have been involved in a project concerning a biographical film on Infosys co-founder N.R. Narayana Murthy.
Tributes from the film industry poured in following the news of his passing, with colleagues remembering him as a senior cameraman who served as a rare bridge between two entirely different eras of Indian cinema. That is, perhaps, the finest thing one can say of any craftsman: he kept up, and he brought others along with him.
