Movies
Colors Bangla to present the world television premiere of ‘Hullor’
Mumbai: Colors Bangla is all set to enthral cinephiles this festive season with the world television premiere of rib-tickling comedy drama Hullor. The movie featuring superstar Soham Chakraborty, Srabanti Chatterjee will premiere on 29 January at 2 p.m. and 9.30 p.m., respectively.
Directed by Abhimanyu Mukherjee, the movie features some of the very popular stars of Tollywood including Srabanti Chatterjee, Soham Chakraborty, Om Sahani, Darshana Banik playing lead roles. The movie has an interesting plot which is about a grocery store in North Kolkata that stands in the way of developers who want to build a mall in that area.
Soham is a ‘ghar jamai’ and is married to Srabanti. He dreams of being financially independent and earning the respect of his rich father-in-law. On the other hand, Om plays a young guy who is in love with Darshana Banik. Her dad owns the grocery store which is in deep debt and eyed by the realtors. The film follows the group of Soham, Srabanti, Om and Darsana as they seek to save the shop from being razed, leading to a series of hilarious events. The movie also stars Biswanath Basu, Santilal Mukherjee, Kanchan Mullick and Supriyo Dutta.
Soham Chakraborty and Srabanti Chatterjee starrer Hullor will be aired on Colors Bangla Cinema subsequently on 12 February at 6 p.m. 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.
