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Cinemax to release Land Gold Women on 2 December
MUMBAI: Cinemax India is all set to release Land Gold Women pan India on 2 December. Land Gold Women is the maiden venture by production house A Richer Lens that is led by Producer Vivek B Agrawal and writer-director Avantika Hari Agrawal.
Speaking on the partnership, Cinemax CEO Sunil Punjabi said "We at Cinemax feel honoured to offer such a talented filmmaker a platform to showcase her maiden project, a film of this ranking that has placed India on the global map.
"The entry of movies like Land Gold Women that invoke serious discussions, is an onset of change in the audience‘ perception, along with the industry‘s growing acceptance towards different cinema."
This Anglo-Indian collaboration, which includes a British cast, and crew of eight different nationalities highlights the evil of honour crime, which is rampantly practiced across the globe.
The film recently won this year‘s Annual Humanitarian Award at The Indie Fest 2011, the Holy Grail for global independent filmmakers.
With the larger objective of creating awareness about the issue of honour violence, the makers of the film have had screenings across several colleges in Mumbai and have interacted with more than 10,000 students on the subject.
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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.
