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‘Bang Bang’ releases ‘Meherbaan’- its new romantic song
MUMBAI: After the first hit ‘Tu Meri’, Bang Bang is all set to woo the audience by its newly-released romantic track ‘Meherbaan.’
Shot in Greece, the track shows a sizzling chemistry between the Greek God of Bollywood Hrithik Roshan, and Bollywood diva Katrina Kaif.
Penned by Anvita Dutt and composed by Vishal-Shekhar, ‘Meherbaan’ has been sung by Ash King, Shilpa Rao and Shekhar Ravijani.
After the teaser and Tu Meri song went viral, the new romantic number ‘Meherbaan’ has also been trending right on top on Twitter since its release.
Bang Bang is an action-thriller based on the Hollywoog film Knight and Day starring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz. Along with Hrithik Roshan and Katrina Kaif, the movie also stars Danny Denzongpa and Jaaved Jaffrey in pivotal roles. With Hrithik as Rajveer and Katrina as Harleen, the film promises ‘flyiing bullets.’
Directed by Sidharth Anand and produced by Fox Star Studios, Bang Bang is scheduled to release this Gandhi Jayanti (2 October ) alongside Vishal Bharadwaj’s Haider, an adaptation of William Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet,’ starring Shahid Kapoor, Tabu, Kay Kay Menon and Shraddha Kapoor.
After setting the screen on fire with their first appearance together in Zoya Akhtar’s Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, Hrithik Roshan and Katrina Kaif come back with their electrifying chemistry. Let’s see if they works their magic this time too.
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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.
