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‘Bol Bachchan’ grosses Rs 728 mn worldwide
NEW DELHI: The Rohit Shetty directed ‘Bol Bachchan’ has reaped gross box office revenues over the weekend totaling Rs 728 million globally including Rs 431 million in India, an official statement said.
Presented by Fox Star Studios, the Shree Ashtavinayak Cinevision and Ajay Devgan Films’ produced film is reportedly shaping to be Devgan-Shetty‘s biggest films, having generated 36 per cent higher figures than Singham and around 43 per cent bigger than Golmaal 3 on the opening day, the statement added. This remarkable feat was achieved despite the monsoon rains and other anticipated regional releases such as EEGA in South and ‘Jatt and Juliet‘ in Punjab.
After opening at Rs 121 million net on Friday and Rs 14o million on Saturday, ‘Bol Bachchan’ saw a phenomenal increase on Sunday contributing to the day‘s total of approximately Rs 170 million, according to the statement.
Bol Bachchan has grossed $2.06 million over the weekend. In the US, it collected $540000, in the UK $255000, Middle East $ 650000, Australia $167000 and rest of the world $450000.
The film stars Ajay Devgan, Abhishek Bachchan, Asin and Prachi Desai in the lead roles.
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.
