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Film industry set for Diwali Dhamaka with three big releases
MUMBAI: With three big budget films – All The Best, Blue and Mr Aurr Mrs Khanna – set to release on 16 October, the Diwali excitement has started.
All The Best, being made under the Ajay Devgan Films banner, is a rib-tickling comedy resulting from mistaken identities and hilarious goof-ups. It marks the return of Ajay Devgan and Rohit Shetty, after Golmaal Returns.
Besides Ajay Devgan, the film has Sanjay Dutt, Fardeen Khan, Bipasha Basu, Mugdha Godse and Asrani.
Blue coming from the Shri Asthavinayak Cine Vision banner is a visual extravaganza that has explored the rich marine and aquatic life for the first time in India.
This film features Sanjay Dutt, Akshay Kumar, Lara Dutta, Zayed Khan, Rahul Dev and international pop-sensation Kylie Minogue. Katrina Kaif can be seen in a special appearance.
The last release Main Aurr Mrs Khanna is jointly produced by Sohail Khan Productions and UTV SpotBoy Pictures and distributed by UTV. It stars Salman Khan, Kareena Kapoor and Sohail Khan.
The film revolves around the story of Samir Khanna (Salman Khan) and Raina Khanna (Kareena Kapoor) who have a fairy tale marriage. Samir gets his dream job and they have a great life until one wrong decision leads them to part their ways.
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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.
