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Dolby Atmos releases ‘Mary Kom’ on Blu-ray
MUMBAI: Dolby Atmos has announced that Shemaroo Entertainment will release the Blu-Ray disc to feature a Dolby Atmos soundtrack with the recently released movie Mary Kom, from Viacom18 Motion Pictures and produced by Sanjay Leela Bhansali.
Viacom18 Motion Pictures is the first Indian studio to support Dolby Atmos on Blu-ray Disc offerings.
ANZ India, south East Asia senior regional director Pankaj Kedia said, “We are thrilled to announce the release of Mary Kom, the first Blu-ray title in the country to feature a Dolby Atmos soundtrack. Dolby Atmos, one of the most significant advancement in home theater audio in 20 years, will transport consumers deeper into the story with amazing clarity and true-to-life detail.”
“Dolby Atmos has generated a tremendous response from the home theater industry. We aim to give consumers the best entertainment experience by bringing Dolby Atmos right into their homes,” he added.
Viacom18 Motion Pictures COO Ajit Andhare further elaborated, “Every punch that Mary threw was heard and felt in Dolby Atmos in the cinema. The power of sound to transport you right into the middle of the ring will now be available to home theater enthusiasts who will be able to experience Dolby Atmos movies the way they were meant to be heard, right in their living rooms.”
Mary Kom, a chronicle of the life of Indian boxer Mary Kom, will be available on Blu-Ray starting 15 October.
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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.
