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Kya Super Kool collects Rs 231 mn in first three days
MUMBAI: Kya Super Kool Hai Hum has withstood the box-office limitations of the Ramzan month, collecting Rs 231 million in the opening weekend.
Balaji Telefilms‘ Girish Johar claims this to be the biggest opening weekend collection for a Ramzan month release.
Mere Dost Picture Abhi Baki Hai fared miserably to collect a little over Rs one million in its first week.
Challo Driver netted just Rs 600,000 in its first week, while Gattu, a Children‘s Film Society enterprise, collected Rs 1.5 million.
Cocktail‘s box office total stood at Rs 713 million with Rs 175 million coming from the second week.
Bol Bachchan did reasonably well in its third week to collect Rs 109 million. This took its three-week total to Rs 930 million.
Gangs Of Wasseypur collected Rs 2.5 million in its fifth week to take its total to Rs 267 million.
Ferrari KI Sawaari added Rs 1.3 million in its sixth week. The movie has so far collected Rs 282.8 million.
Having netted Rs 2.5 million in the eighth week of its run, Rowdy Rathore has mopped up Rs 1.38 billion so far.
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.
