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Shemaroo releases home videos of two Hollywood flicks
MUMBAI: Shemaroo Entertainment releases two Hollywood films Crime & Punishment and The Effects of Magic in home video format.
This follows Shemaroo‘s foray into distribution of International movies this year. The company had told Indiantelevision.com earlier that it had acquired about 300 titles, across all genres.
The DVD and VCD of these two Hollywood titles are priced at Rs 199 and Rs 49, respectively.
Crime & Punishment, based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky‘s novel, depicts the recovery of a man‘s diseased spirit. It exposes the soul of a man possessed by both good and evil, a man who cannot escape his own conscience.
Menahem Golan‘s Crime & Punishment stars Crispin Glover, John Hurt, Vanessa Redgrave, Margot Kidder and John Neville. The movie has won the ‘Platinum Award‘ at ‘WorldFest Houston‘.
The Effects of Magic is an adventurous family drama directed by Charlie Martinez and Chuck Martinez. The film stars Kathy Bates, Melinda Dillon, Robert Carradine and Jacobo Morales.
The Effects of Magic revolves around the son of a great and absentee magician, who runs a costume company with his slightly eccentric mother. The protagonist starts to ponder how magic can affect everyone.
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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.
