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Shringar Cinema ties up with HDIL for multiplexes
MUMBAI: Shringar Films Ltd (SFL), the 100 per cent subsidiary of the Shringar Cinemas Ltd, has tied up with the real estate firm Housing Development and Infrastructure Ltd (HDIL) for programming their forthcoming multiplexes.SFL is planning for a three-screen multiplex at Vasai, a four-screen at Bhandup and a six-screen multiplex at Kandivali, with HDIL.
In addition, Shringar Films has also signed for acquiring four other properties in Pune, with five screens in all. These new properties are in addition to the three screens being developed by SFL in Mumbai, viz. Globus-Bandra, Gossip-Bandra, and Maratha Mandir.
“We are acquring four private properties in Pune, the deal is signed,” said Shringar Cinemas MD Shravan Shroff. “We are pleased with the tie-up with HDIL, for programming all our forthcoming multiplex screens. Along with Shringar Cinemas‘ screens, we are sure that it is an excellent one stop show for distributors and producers to exhibit their films, across a variety of locations and cities,” he added.
With this, the total number of screens that are now under Shringar Films for programming is 21. The total number of screens, along with the screens that are under Shringar Films and Shringar Cinemas combined, now stands at 65.
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.
