Movies
Carnival Cinemas offers rewards for movie ticket
Mumbai: Multiplex chain Carnival Cinemas, founded by Dr. Shrikant Bhasi, on Friday announced that moviegoers will receive assured gifts after booking movie tickets on www.carnivalcinemas.com. The company added that a few lucky winners will get a chance to win free hampers.
With the aim of encouraging consumers to book their tickets online through the website, Carnival Cinemas aims to establish a strong connection with moviegoers by engaging them through its unique reward activations. The company is consistently setting benchmarks of pioneering innovation across the Indian exhibition.
This reward campaign initiative is designed to ensure that the customers have the best experience possible. It aims to increase the excitement and anticipation for the upcoming movies. This consumer promotional offer will be available at all Carnival Cinemas theatres across India.
The reward will be inclusive of free products, vouchers, and food & beverages. Additionally, a lucky winner will be chosen in every show at Carnival Cinemas at their IMAX Wadala theatre.
On launching the offer for the patrons, Carnival Cinemas director and CEO Vishal Sawhney stated, “We are excited to announce the launch of our new promotional offer for our patrons! With this new scheme, our patrons can enjoy easy and convenient booking options through our website—www.carnialcinemas.com—and at the same time be rewarded for the same. We hope that our patrons will find this new scheme interesting. At Carnival Cinemas, we believe that the consumer is the most important aspect of our business. We strive to provide an excellent experience for every customer who visits our theatres by offering a variety of films to choose from, goodies and services. Our goal is to ensure that each and every person who walks through our doors has a great time and leaves with a smile on their face. We are committed to providing the best possible service and making sure that our customers are happy.”
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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.
