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Eros International reports higher income, profit in Q3-2014
BENGALURU: Eros International Media Limited (Eros) posted 17.2 per cent y-o-y consolidated operating income at Rs 432.68 crore in Q3-2014 as compared to the Rs 369.33 crore in last year’s quarter and was more than double (2.15 times) the operating income of Rs 201.05 crore in the immediate trailing quarter. Over the nine month period that ended 31 December, 2013, Eros reported a 4.2 per cent drop in operating income from Rs 855.63 crore to Rs 820.05 crore in the corresponding period of the previous year. Operating Income for FY 2013 was Rs 1067.95 crore.
The company’s PAT in Q3-2014 at Rs 91.99 was 41.1 per cent higher as compared to the Rs 65.2 crore in Q3-2013 and also more than double (2.48 times) the Rs 36.97 crore in Q2-2014. YTD, PAT for the current quarter was up by 29 per cent to Rs 158.30 crore as compared to Rs 122.71 crore in last year’s nine month period. For FY 2013, Eros reported PAT of Rs 154.53 crore.
Eros Managing Director Sunil Lulla said, “The company has showcased its success with releases such as Ram Leela, R…Rajkumar, Grand Masti, Raanjhaana, Krissh 3 (Overseas), Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani (Overseas) and Phata Poster Nikla Hero (Overseas). These releases are continuously being monetised over several distribution platforms. With a diversified mix of high budget and moderately budgeted-high concept movies in our future movie stale, we believe that we will exhibit sustained success in the future as well.”
Let us look at the other Q3-2014 figures reported by Eros:
Consolidated total expense for Q3-2014 at Rs 298.4 crore was 6.5 per cent more than the Rs 280.27 crore in Q3-2013 and almost double (1.97 times) the expense of Rs 151.16 crore in the immediate trailing quarter. Year-to-Date (YTD), Eros reported expense of Rs 597.64 crore, which was 11.6 per cent lower than the Rs 675.95 crore in the corresponding nine month period of last year. In FY 2013, Expense was Rs 848.13 crore.
Earnings before Income & Tax (EBIT) reported by the company for Q4-2014 at Rs 135.25 crore was up by 50.5 per cent as compared to the EBIT of Rs 89.86 crore in Q3-2013 and also more than double (2.68 times) the Rs 50.31 crore in Q2-2014. YTD, EBIT at Rs 231.69 crore was 25.6 per cent more than the Rs 184.47 crore in the corresponding nine months of the previous year. For FY 2013, Eros EBIT was Rs 226.22 crore.
Eros Finance cost for Q3-2014 at Rs 7.39 crore was almost triple (2.84 times) the Rs 2.6 crore in Q3-2013 and 19.2 per cent more than the Rs 6.2 crore in Q2-2014. YTD, the company’s finance cost was more than double (2.44 times) at Rs 18.2 crore as compared to the Rs 7.44 crore in the corresponding nine months of the previous year. In FY 2013, Eros paid finance costs of Rs 9.22 crore.
The company says that 41 films (15 Hindi, 25 Tamil and 1 other regional) were released during the nine month of FY 2014 as compared to 60 (26 Hindi, 32 Tamil and 2 other regional) films in during nine month FY 2013. It says that strong theatrical revenues during 9M FY 2014 have showcased the success of overseas releases, namely: Ram Leela, R…Rajkumar, Grand Masti, Raanjhaana, Krissh 3, Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani and Phata Poster Nikla Hero.
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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.
