Hindi
Paan Sing Tomar nets Rs 40 mn at BO in dull week
MUMBAI: The week was crowded with as many as four releases, despite a dull period. While all the films had poor or nil opening response, Paan Singh Tomar seems to have found some favour with the audience.
The athlete-turned-dacoit film opened poorly on Friday with figures well under Rs 10 million; however, the second day showed a marked improvement with Sunday collections more than doubling. The film closed its first weekend with a little over Rs 40 million.
London Paris New York had an unimpressive opening coming as it does during exams and, hence, missed out on its target audience. The film could not manage to improve much during the weekend to finish with Rs 34 million.
Diary of a Butterfly and Will You Marry Me found no takers.
Tere Naal Love Ho Gaya collected Rs 112 million in its first week; most of it came from the first three days. Jodi Breakers slid further after the weekend to collect Rs 84 million in its first week.
Ekk Deewana Tha, Married To America and ? (Question Mark) showed a token presence in their second week.
Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu collected Rs 13.5 million in its third week to take its three-week tally to Rs 406.5 million; released as a joint venture between the producer and Hiralaxmi Films with the all-India theatrical price determined at Rs 250 million, the film may fall short by about Rs 50 million.
Agneepath added Rs 5 million in its fifth week to take its total collections to Rs 1.20 billion.
Hindi
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.
