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Zee Action lines up blockbuster movies in ‘Action ka Punchnama’
MUMBAI: Zee Action, India’s one stop destination for action movies, presents a terrific line-up of action films titled Action ka Punchnama starting from 20 March at 8 pm. Airing every night, the week filled with thrill and adventure will end on 26 March 2016.
The festival commences with Vidroh – Let's Fight Back on 20 March at 8 pm. The movie stars the very pretty Kriti Sanon and Naga Chaitanya in lead roles. The action crime film revolves around a conman in urgent need of a lump sum amount of money and a policeman to catch him red handed. The next in line is Bal Brahmachari, a murder mystery starring Karisma Kapoor, Deepak Tijori and Puru Rajkumar on 21 March. On 22 March catch Mera Krodhstarring Ravi Teja in a lead role. The romantic action drama revolves around three close friends and a complicated love story with twists and turns. Khalnayak on 23rd March with Sanjay Dutt, Jackie Shroff and Madhuri Dixit in pivotal roles is sure to entertain the audiences. This blockbuster is about the escape and attempted capture of a terrorist criminal Ballu by Inspector Ram and his girlfriend, officer Ganga. The next action flick is Police Police on 24 March. The movie starringRavi Teja is about four buddies who accidentally get selected in the Police Academy, but face a series of obstacles before they reach their destination. It will be followed by Pandav – The Punch on 25 March starring Arya and Pooja revolving around Rudran, who was left behind by his parent in Varanasi to become an Aghori. Action ka Punchnama will conclude on 26 March with Phool Aur Kaante starring Ajay Devgn and Madhu in lead roles. Ajay Devgn's entry in the film became very popular where he appeared standing and balancing on two moving motorcycles and similar stunts have been repeated by him in various films thereafter.
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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.
