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PVR consolidated Q2 net up 13% to Rs 161.4 mn
MUMBAI: PVR‘s consolidated net profit rose 12.86 per cent to Rs 161.4 million for the quarter ended 30 September from Rs 143 million a year ago.
The film exhibition and distribution firm‘s net income from operations increased 36.5 per cent to Rs 1.89 billion in the second quarter from Rs 1.39 billion a year ago. PVR‘s movie exhibition business contributed Rs 1.76 billion to net income, while movie production and distribution contributed Rs 72.1 million.
Consolidated Ebitda for the second quarter was Rs 375.2 million, up 15 per cent from Rs 326.6 million a year ago.
PVR chairman and MD Ajay Bijli said, “We are extremely pleased that 2012 is shaping up as a great year at the box office. The revenues and profitability in the quarter and half year has shown a robust growth over the same period last year.”
During the first half of the year the company added six new multiplexes with 31 screens at Jalandhar, Ujjain, Ludhiana, Nagpur, Bilaspur and Pune. The company now operates 44 properties with 197 screens in 27 cities across the country.
The company has significant expansion plans and intends to add another 51 screens in the remainder of the fiscal.
“We have a significant screen rollout this year and are opening our flagship cinemas in Kurla, Mumbai (8 screens), Orion Mall, Bangalore (11 screens), Mysore (4 screens) which are all expected to open in the next few days. We are also launching our 1st IMAX screen in Bangalore with “Skyfall” on 1st Nov, 2012,” he added.
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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.
