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Eros acquires worldwide rights of Diljit Dosanjh’s ‘Mukhtiar Chadha’
MUMBAI: Eros International is expanding its presence in the regional film market. After announcing plans to release the Malayalam filmPathemari starring Mammothy, the company has now acquired the worldwide rights of actor Diljit Dosanjh’s upcoming Punjabi film Mukhtiar Chadha.
The movie will be released on 27 November, 2015.
After his last movie Sardarji, Dosanjh will be seen in another comedy Mukhtiar Chadha opposite Oshin Sai.
Written by Dosanjh and Chetan Parwana, the film also features Yashpal Sharma, Kiran Juneja, Jaswant, Rathor Khyali among others. It is produced by Ohri Productions & Wahid Sandhar Showbiz and the music is given by Jaspal Singh.
“Punjab is a flourishing market that has immense potential to grow further. We are happy to associate with Mukhtiar Chadha that will pave the way for further broadening our presence in the regional markets,” Eros International managing director Sunil Lulla.
Ohri Productions director Vivek Ohri added, “We are extremely happy we have teamed up with a leading studio like Eros that will provide the right platform to our film and take it to audiences worldwide.”
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.
