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Paramount to cut down on film releases
MUMBAI: Paramount Pictures has announced that it has reduced its release target from 25 to 20 films per year.
The comapny said that the move is to “compete effectively in the changing marketplace and to realise the maximum financial benefit of the series of new operating efficiencies achieved by the studio.”
Paramount Pictures Corporation chairman and CEO Brad Grey said, “We at Paramount are taking steps to ensure our business and creative plans are sound and viable for the long term.”
Media reports said Paramount would save $50 million per year from these measures. This follows Steven Spielberg‘s split from the studio.
As per the plan, Paramount is planning to release 12 homegrown films, including those under the MTV and Nickelodeon banners, plus four from Paramount Vantage and as many as four more from DreamWorks Animation and Marvel Studios.
Also, the company has announced that Adam Goodman will be moving from DreamWorks to Paramount Pictures as president of production, overseeing a creative staff who will manage the current DreamWorks projects and creative relationships, as well as new development for Paramount.
Brad Weston will continue as president of production for Paramount Pictures, and will supervise existing creative staff overseeing their ongoing development, talent relationships and new development.
Goodman will report to Paramount Film Group president John Lesher on creative areas.
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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.
