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Now, Sonakshi dons the producer’s hat
MUMBAI: After Ranbir Kapoor and Anushka Sharma, Sonakshi SInha is now the latest to join the production bandwagon. The Dabangg actress with her brothers Luv and Kush has launched a new production house Kratos Entertainment.
Kush SInha took to twitter to make the announcement, “Sonakshi, Luv and I are happy to announce the formation of our production company – Kratos Entertainment.”
Reportedly, the siblings had been thinking over the prospect for long and were waiting for the right time and opportunity. It still remains to be seen which project they undertake for their debut venture.
Earlier Ranbir Kapoor had announced that he would co-produce his upcoming movie Bombay Velvet with Phantom productions, owned by Anurag Kashyap. His second production venture will again be his upcoming movie Jagga Jasoos. Actress Anushka Sharma, who is awaiting the release of her next PK, also is also set to try her hands as a producer for one of her upcoming movies – NH10. The actress, who will also play the lead in the venture, is co-producing it with the production house – Phantom.
Sonakshi SInha will soon be starting up with the promotions of Action Jackson, she is also shooting for the movie Tevar and finished shooting for her south debut Lingaa with Rajnikant.
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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.
