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Bol Bachchan crosses Rs 1 bn mark, says Fox Star
Mumbai: After giving landmark films like Golmaal 3 and Singham that earned blockbuster status by entering the Rs 1 billion league, superhit jodi Ajay Devgn and Rohit Shetty have done it again for the third consecutive time as their comic film Bol Bachchan too has crossed the magic figure of Rs 1 billion.
The masala entertainer which opened to huge collection figures of Rs 431 million in India in its first weekend, maintained its steady collections drive over the box office even in the third week. The action-comedy collected a massive Rs 668.1 million in its first week and Rs 241.2 million in week two, according to Fox Star Studios.
Presented by Fox Star Studios and produced by Shree Ashtavinayak Cinevision and Ajay Devgn Films, the Ajay Devgan-Abhishek Bachchan- Asin- Prachi Desai starrer, has the perfect combination of action, comedy and dhamaal entertainment that has been very well received by both multiplexes and single screen audiences.
Even in week 3, the film continued a good run at both multiplexes and single screens despite the release of one of this year‘s biggest Hollywood movies The Dark Knight RisesI.
Bol Bachchan has amassed Rs 933 million in week 3 taking the total box office collections to Rs 1 billion in 20 days with 2,700 prints.
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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.
