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Viacom 18’s G.I. JOE: Retaliation releasing in India ahead of international release
MUMBAI: G.I. JOE: Retaliation, the follow-up to the 2009 release G.I. JOE: Rise of the Cobra, is releasing in India first ahead of its international release.
Out in theaters on 27 March, director Jon M. Chu‘s movie stars an ensemble cast of biggies like Bruce Willis, Channing Tatum, Dwayne Johnson along with D.J. Cotrona, Adrianne Palicki, Ray Park, Jonathan Pryce and Ray Stevenson.
Additionally, the team behind the film has associated with WWE for a very special contest and bonanza for fans.
The contest will give audience an opportunity to see Dwayne ‘The Rock‘ Johnson aka the WWE Champion live in action and get an all expense paid trip to New York to watch Wrestle Mania 29, Hall of Fame & Fan Axxxess.
The creative team of Viacom 18 Motion Pictures will leave no stone unturned to publicise the promos of the contest on a popular English movie channel, along with radio campaigns on top stations backed by outdoor hoardings as well.
Says Viacom18 Motion Pictures head of marketing Rudrarup Datta, "Viacom18 Motion Pictures and & WWE India join hands in activating a nation wide contest with the international summer 3D blockbuster GI Joe-Retaliation starring Dwayne ‘The Rock‘ Johnson and Wrestle Mania 29. Dwayne who is the current WWE champion will be the face of the campaign.
The campaign is built on the synergised attributes of "Raw Power", "Never say die attitude" and "Global scale" which is common to both the properties.
As part of the promotion two "lucky" winners will get an All Expense paid trip to New York to witness Wrestle Mania on the 7 April in New York Live. People also stand a chance to win interesting official WWE merchandise and invites to a special WWE Party in Mumbai.
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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.
