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‘Happy New Year’ to be dubbed in German for home video
MUMBAI: Having had a successful run worldwide,Red Chillies Entertainment’s (RCE) film Happy New Year (HNY) is now all set to add another feather to its hat.
The movie will now be available on Home Video from 20 March 2015, dubbed in German language, ensuring that it reaches the drawing rooms of its German fans. HNY came out in German cinemas on 30 October last year, a week after its Indian release where it saw good collections at the box office in its original version and was in Top 10 at the Box Office on its opening day in Germany.
Now with this new move, the company hopes to bridge the gap between language and world content, further. Worldwide distributors Yash Raj Films in association with Rapid Eye Movies are now bringing the Home Video for the German territory.
RCE chief revenue officer Gaurav Verma said, “This home video is specifically aimed at SRK’s extensive fan base in Germany to give them another reason to rejoice. The film is now being offered in German dub as all his films have massive traction there especially in home entertainment. HNY has been dubbed in many local languages and we will continue to extend the reach of our content to the furthest corners of the world by localizing content in more regional languages.”
Talking about the venture at hand, German based Rapid Eye Movies founder Stephen Holl said, “Rapid Eye Movies, in association with YRF, proudly announces the German Home entertainment release of the Red Chillies Entertainment production Happy New Year. SRK is the singular most popular Indian actor in Germany, with a major fan base and numerous fan clubs. After the box office success of the movie in German cinemas, a dubbed German-language version of the film will hit stores on 20 March on DVD and blu-ray, as well as a limited edition digipak.”
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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.
