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Mahesh Manjrekar forays into Marathi TV with Tuza Maza Jamena
MUMBAI: After giving many successful Marathi films and plays, Mahesh Manjrekar has now forayed into Marathi television with his new production Tuza Maza Jamena (TMJ), which will be aired on Zee Marathi.
The lead cast of TMJ is Reema, Manva Naik, Vaibhav Tattvavadi, Vidyadhar Joshi, Suhas Joshi, Bhau Kadam, Poornima Manohar, Shreedhar Bhave, Abhijeet Kelkar and Savita Malpekar amongst others.
The show will be aired from 13 May from Monday to Saturday at 9 pm.
"I‘ve always believed that TV is a very challenging medium, simply because keeping the audience hooked for days on end is not the easiest thing in the world. In fact, I think doing something for TV is the most tiring job. But, it‘s also a challenge that I wanted to take up. Also, TV is too huge a market to ignore," Manjrekar said.
He added, "People are asking me why only Saas Bahu story? In fact, it‘s an everlasting subject. Every day some person or the other has an incident to tell about in-laws, bahus and husbands. The reason my serial is not going to be like other shows are because I have kept my script contemporary. Tuza Maza Jamena is a new age story and will portray the dilemma in every household where there is a gap in generation, egos, beliefs, understanding and expectations. Everybody will identify with the characters. And yes, there will be emotions and lots of humour too."
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.
