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Prime Focus Q3 net up 50% to Rs 262.9 mn
MUMBAI: Prime Focus Limited has posted a consolidated net profit of Rs 262.9 million for tthe fiscal-third quarter ended December 2011, which is 50.4 per cent higher compared to the Rs 174.8 million the company posted in the same quarter in the previous fiscal.
The company’s consolidated income also rose 67.6 per cent to Rs 2.13 billion for the third quarter compared to the Rs 1.27 billion that the company posted in financial year 2010 for the same quarter. Net income jumped to Rs 612.7 million for the current quarter as opposed to Rs 370.6 million in the previous fiscal for the same period.
Prime Focus MD & CEO Ramki Sankaranarayanan said, “I am pleased to report a good set of results based on the continued strong performance of our 2D-3D conversion business, which is growing rapidly on the back of superior technology platform, View-DTM and service delivery to Hollywood studios. Five of the 10 Oscar nominations in the visual effects category this year are projects we are proud to have contributed our services to, clearly reflecting our global penetration in this space.
“Our subsidiary Prime Focus Technologies (PFT) is in the forefront of cloud computing driven execution of digital processes in the media industry. As broadcasters and content owners embrace HD TV, file-based workflows and multi-platform delivery, new age standard operating procedures and engagement models are emerging in managing unified content operations. CLEARTM, our hybrid cloud platform, on the back of the successes in India with Star TV, Eros, Unilever, Balaji Telefilms and JWT, now have global wins as well reflecting its potential for the future."
PFL is a global visual entertainment services group that provides creative and technical services to the film, broadcast, and advertising market.
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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.
