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Jaane bhi do yaaro set for release on 7 December with 400 prints
MUMBAI: Jaane bhi do yaaro is made on a budget of Rs 70 million and is slated for a worldwise release on 7 December.
The satellite rights of the film have been sold. Talks are on with a corporate house to sell the music and DVD rights.
Releasing in India with 400 prints, the Sanjay Sharma (brother of Anil ‘Apne‘ Sharma) directed Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro has tied up with jewelry line Gitanjali and will have in-film placement of their products.
A comedy revolving around a diamond robbery, the film will have the brand Gitanjali promote the lead actor, Kapil through various contests and promotions. Probably it is the first time that a male lead is being promoted by a jewelry line.
As for the rights to the title of the film, Rohit Shetty, the marketing consultant to Anil Sharma, discloses that it has been acquired. But he refused to divulge the amount. Jaane bhi do yaaro was a 1983 satirical comedy directed by Kundan Shah and produced by NFDC.
Jaane bhi do yaaro will launch Kapil Sharma (brother of Anil Sharma) in the lead opposite Kulraj Randhawa (of TV serial Kareena Kareena fame) and will also star Meghna Chatterji. Bappi Lahiri has scored the music in the film. Made under their family banner, Shantketan, the making of the film has been supervised by Anil Sharma.
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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.
