Hindi
Tangerine acquires worldwide rights of Mithya
MUMBAI: Tangerine Digital Entertainment marks its entry into the motion picture space by acquiring the worldwide rights of Mithya, the latest production from Planman Motion Pictures. It is set for release on 8 February 2008.
Mithya, a comic thriller based on the underworld and directed by noted actor-director Rajat Kapoor, has a star cast that includes Ranvir Shorey, Naseerudin Shah, Vinay Pathak and Saurabh Shukla. Rajat has directed Mixed Doubles, and the last venture that Rajat, Ranvir and Vinay collaborated on was Bheja Fry.
Speaking on the occasion, Planman Motion Pictures CEO Shubho Shekhar Bhattacharjee said, “Planman Motion Pictures has produced a number of quality movies in the recent past. We are happy to partner with Tangerine Digital Entertainment and are quite sure that Mithya will be loved by the audience.”
Tangerine Digital Entertainment MD Puneet Johar further added, “Mithya is a film, wherein the cast and director have lately endeared themselves to the audience. This is our first major film foray into the Hindi film industry, and we are indeed proud to be associated with a film like Mithya and Planman Motion Pictures. With this venture, we complete the convergence story as the company now has interests in media services, digital media, television production and films.”
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.
