Movies
Colors Bangla all set for the World Television Premiere of Googly
Mumbai: After heart-warming response from the audience, Soham Chakraborty and Srabanti Chatterjee starrer “Googly” is all set for its world television premiere only on Colors Bangla on 26 February at 2 pm and 9.30 pm. Directed by Abhimanyu Mukherjee and produced by Surinder Films, Googly delves into the lives of Dali and Arjun, a couple suffering from a stammering problem.
Dali (Srabanti Chatterjee) is ridiculed by her friends and is often left alone in social gatherings because of her speech defect. Her parents are adamant on getting her married but everytime she gets rejected. Arjun (Soham Chakraborty) and his family come to see Dali and soon, it is revealed that Arjun also stammers; however, both Dali and Arjun’s parents remain in the dark about the speech defect of prospective groom and bride. Elated, Dali and Arjun both decide to be friends and eventually they get married. The problem arises in their happy marital life when the question of having a baby arises. Their lives take an eventful turn after the birth of their son Googly, and what happens next forms the crux of the story. The movie also stars Kanchan Mullick as Arjun’s friend.
Soham Chakraborty and Srabanti Chatterjee starrer Googly will be aired on Colors Bangla cinema subsequently on 12 March at 6 pm. The show will be heavily promoted on air and on social media for better reach and engagement.
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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.
