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GP Sippy Multimedia Ent. to launch 15 films in two years
NEW DELHI: The G P Sippy banner has announced the launch of 15 films to be completed within the next two years, with Sunill Khosla of Boutique Cinema as creative director for all of them.
GP Sippy Multimedia Entertainment Ltd chairman Ajit GP Sippy, along with Vibha Dutta Khosla of Boutique Cinema, jointly announced the projects with major stars and directors.
Sunill Khosla told indiantelevision.com that he will also introduce new actors, actresses, directors and technicians.
After recording the songs for Jhansi ki Rani, the film was launched with Meera, Milind Gunaji, Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Kader Khan, Nirmal Pandey, Tom Alter, Tiku Talsania,Dinesh Hingoo, Gajendra Chauhan, Surinder Pal, Goga Kapoor, and Jyoti Patel. The music is by Nikhal and Ambrish Shahbadi. The director is Rajesh Mittal while Khosla is the creative director. The film is being produced by Rajesh Mittal under the Sippy and R N Films banner. The shooting is commencing next month.
The other films announced are: A Dangerous Love Story, Mumbaai Mastii, Maasooma, Darr Lagta Hai, Love Kaa Keeda, Mr Mobile, Sita, Puppiyan – Jhappiyan, Go Goa, Waaqia, Chai Garam, Maha Satya, Saaz Sur Aur Sanam.
Meanwhile, Siddharth – brother of Manisha Koirala – has been signed by the Sippys and Boutique Cinema for three films which will go on the floors shortly. They include Maasooma. Siddharath was last seen in Anwar.
Sippy’s company has just released its first Bhojpuri film Mai Tu bas Mai Badi starring Ravi Kissan and Nagma with music by Anand Milind, directed by Dayanand Rajan and produced by Vithal-Vohra under the banner of G P Sippy Multimedia.
One film ready for release is Jab Love Hua – India’s first digital film – with Rahul Roy and introducing Riya and Shradha Rana Jung Bahadur, with Birbal, Johnny Nirmal, Rajan, Janvi, Neha Joshi and Prithvi Zutshi. The creative director and music director is Sunill Khosla while the cinematography and direction is by Triloki Chaudary. The lyrics are by Govind Moonis and the film has been produced by Vibha Diwan-Reshma under the Sippy banner in association with Boutique Cinema and Rudra Eye.
Meanwhile, the company is to build a state-of-the-art film and animation studio with a multiplex and a five star hotel on a 150-acre plot on the Gujarat-Maharashtra belt acquired by it.
Hindi
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.
