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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter coming to India on 13 July
MUMBAI: Fox Star Studios is set to release Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov‘s Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter 3D on 13 July across India.
With the release, a brand new twist in one of the greatest chapters of American history is set to be revealed.
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter explores the secret life of Abraham Lincoln, USA‘s most famous president and talks about the untold story that shaped the American nation. The story centers on Lincoln, the 16th President of the US who discovers that vampires are planning to take over the US and hence he makes it his mission to eliminate them.
Noted Tim Burton in a statement, “Lincoln‘s entire life mirrors the classic comic book superhero mythology. It‘s a duality: during the day he‘s the president of the United States; at night, a vampire hunter.”
Starring Benjamin Walker, a fresh cast of rising star, as Abraham Lincoln, the film also has Dominic Cooper, Anthony Mackie, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Rufus Sewell and Marton Csokas.
“The problems we are facing now are almost the same as in his day. The Civil War is still happening. Especially here in New Orleans, in Louisiana, you feel this as dramatic as it was 150 years ago. Still, all the problems are here. And still we have to finish what he began,” comments co-producer director Bekmambetov.
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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.
