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Box Office: Housefull 3 – decent collection
MUMBAI: Akshay Kumar’s films have a safe selling price because of which they also have a safe recovery target. Most of his films fold up within the hundred crore mark save for a couple.
Houseful 3 has been panned by our critics who will praise the similar Dumb & Dumber or The Nice Guys of the similar genre. Houseful 3 is an entertainer even if branded a no brainer. The public has been deprived of a mass entertainer catering to all sort of audience for over three months because of which the film has had a decent opening. It has maintained well and the collections saw a huge leap on Sunday to end its opening weekend with Rs 53.25 crore.
The collections will affected from tomorrow onwards as Ramadan sets in.
Project Marathwada was poor.
Waiting, despite Naseeruddin Shah in the lead, has failed to stir up any interest in the audience. The film has managed to collect barely Rs 1.9 crore in its first week.
Phobia, a kind of thriller laced with horror, collected Rs 2.95 crore in its first week.
Veerappan, did better finding some support from single screen mass cinemas. The film collected Rs 6.75 crore in its first week.
Fredrick went down as a total loss project.
Sarbjit collected Rs 6.65 crore in its second week to take its two week tally to Rs 26.05 crore.
Azhar added Rs 30 lakh in its third week taking its three week total to Rs 31.95 crore.
Baaghi has added Rs 20 lakh in its fifth week to take its five week total to Rs 78.25 crore.
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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.
