Hindi
‘Chal Bhaag’ slated for release next week
NEW DELHI: It is rare that a director heeds the advice of his cast members about a film, but Prakash Saini surprised all when he agreed after a screening of his film ‘Chal Bhaag’ along with his crew to remove certain scenes on the advice of his main actor Deepak Dobriyal.
‘Chal Bhaag’ is a film that highlights the plight of those who have served their prison sentences but continue to be defamed or ostracized by society, ‘Chal Bhaag’, is slated for release next week on 13 June.
The film is an action comedy directed by Prakash Saini. The story revolves around three prisoners and the situations they land in.
A production venture of Alimoh Films, it stars Deepak Dobriyal, Mukesh Tiwari, Tarun Bajaj, Keeya Khanna, and Varun Mehra in the main roles.
‘Chal Bhaag’ is the story of three troublemakers: Munna Supari, Bunty Chor and Daler Singh Tadipaar. The three find themselves in prison, facing the wrath of the vengeful inspector. When they learn that they`re only being released so they can be killed, the three must band together in order to survive’, the director said during a press meet.
Deepak Dobriyal added, “This film, I would say is obviously not very different from the films that made earlier but It does highlight the present scenario of our system and shows persons suffer sometime even after undergoing their sentences. The audience will enjoy this roller coaster ride kind story of the film.”
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.
