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FunOnGo releases ‘Singh Is Bliing’ mobile game
MUMBAI: FunOnGo Entertainment has released the official mobile game of Akshay Kumar’s upcoming film – Singh is Bliing, which is directed by Prabhu Deva.
The action comedy is scheduled to release on 2 October, 2015 and also stars Amy Jackson, Lara Dutta and Kay Kay Menon in lead roles.
FunOnGo Entertainment is the publisher and distributor of the mobile game. The company provides customised platform and managed services to clients such as Samsung, Micromax, Karbonn, Intex, Spice and Gionee.
The game is designed in a manner where gamers get a feel of being in the shoes of action hero Akshay Kumar. The run up to the castle and the fight sequences on the floor are evocative of the fast pace, taut action that Kumar is famed for.
Kumar said, “I really liked the game, the fights were so good that I ended up playing the game for most of the day.”
The interactive mobile action game requires Rafttaar Singh to go on a mission to save Sara, who has been captured and held captive in a castle. The gamer plays as Rafttaar Singh and can unlock up to three stages of game play as he succeeds from one level to another.
FunOnGo Entertainment CEO Vijay Singh said, “We see the mobile phone as a fantastic gateway for film makers to reach their potential consumer. Our team plays an active role in publishing, marketing and distribution of the games we do. Mobile games provide for an immersive experience and turn curious bystanders to engaged fans.”
Reliance Big Entertainment COO Shibasish Sarkar added, “In the business of entertainment, fans create customers and this impacts box office performance. Our alliance with FunOnGo to publish the official game is with the view to provide the customer a value added cinematic experience.”
The Singh Is Bliing official mobile game is available for download on Android, iOS marketplace as well as on other app stores online.
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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.
