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Bollywood stars set to rock Dubai Music Week
Dubai Music Week will feature a ‘Bollywood Night’ with performances from some of the industry’s top performers.
Stars including Farhan Akhtar and Pritam will take to the Dubai stage on 28 September for an unforgettable musical experience.
The concert is set to excite the crowds at Dubai World Trade Centre, as the Bollywood stars perform hits from some of their most popular albums and recent movie chart-toppers.
‘Bollywood Night’ will feature Farhan’s leading edge rock band, Farhan Live, performing for the first time ever in Dubai in front of an expected crowd of thousands. The band debuted during a gig in Goa earlier this year to a crowd of more than 25,000 fans.
Other acts set to entertain fans during ‘Bollywood Night’ include music director and composer, Pritam, who will be collaborating with Mohit Chauhan, Arjit Singh, Harshdeep Kaur, Benny Dayal and Neeti Mohan. Adding to the excitement, fans can likely expect performances from Pritam’s latest album release, the soundtrack of the movie Phata Poster Nikla Hero which will be released a week before the concert.
Bollywood lyricist and two-time recipient of the Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer, Mohit Chauhan, will also be performing his top songs, in addition to Benny Dayal – the voice behind Batameez Dil and Lat Lag Gayi, two of this year’s popular tracks.
Arjit Singh is sure to get the crowd swooning with his performances of two of the two most-loved hits from Aashiqui 2 – Tum Hi Ho and Sunn Raha Hai. Harshdeep Kaur and Neeti Mohan will also be taking the stage to perform some of their most famous ballads.
Dubai Music Week will run from 24-29 September and include exciting live concert performances from Will.I.Am, Timbaland and Selena Gomez and more.
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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.
