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PeeCee becomes the face of Guess Worldwide
MUMBAI: In a career spanning little more than a decade, actor Priyanka Chopra has achieved a feat that would many few female actors from the country have achieved. The 30-year-old model-turned-actor has been signed by international fashion brand Guess for its Holiday 2013 campaign and has also become the first Indian Guess girl.
Over the years, Guess have won many Clio awards and have even featured supermodels like Claudia Schiffer, Eva Herzigova, Anna Nicole Smith, Kate Upton, Valeria Mazza, Julia Lescova, Laetitia Casta among many others.
This time, our own Piggy Chops is set to rule the fashion glossies when her Guess campaign breaks in.
Few industry insiders think Chopra’s one-year contract with Guess would be close to worth Rs 5-10 crore.
The deal has obviously excited the actor. She even took to twitter to express her happiness: “I’m so proud to be the next #GuessGirl. It’s a legacy of beauty for 30 years..Thank u @bryanadams and @GUESS for making this such a fab shoot.”
Singer, photographer Bryan Admas, who has shot the campaign, also posted a photo of Priyanka Chopra’s photoshoot on Twitter.
And Priyanka couldn’t do without thanking him for his superb work. She wrote, “thank u @guess bryanadams #PaulMarciano and everyone who made this possible..”
The actor, who was definitely in a good moolove..”d, even invited her followers for a question-answer session. She wrote: “Hey guys long time no Q n A.. I’m in NYC for the #guess launch so am on US time.. Who is up..? Let’s spread some
The only other Indian actors who have been signed as global brand ambassadors are Shahrukh Khan for Tag Heuer and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan for L’Oreal. Shahrukh Khan has been with Tag for the last 12 years and the value of his deal is said to be in the range of Rs 20 crore, which is paid through a combination of barter and money.
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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.
