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PVR INOX brings UNMISSABLE HITS Film Festival
Mumbai: PVR INOX Ltd, India’s largest multiplex chain, is set to kick off the new year with a cinematic treat for movie enthusiasts by bringing a unique and exciting Film Festival – UNMISSABLE HITS. The Film Festival will showcase an impressive line-up of blockbuster films, which ruled the hearts of the movie lovers in the year 2023, including Pathaan, Jawan, Tiger 3, and Gadar 2. Scheduled to take place from 5 to 11 January 2024, the Film Festival will captivate audiences in 60 cinemas across Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Pune, Goa, Bengaluru, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Indore, Jaipur, Lucknow and 20 other cities of India.
The ticket pricing for this cinematic extravaganza will start from Rs. 150 onwards, making it accessible to a wide range of movie enthusiasts. Patrons can conveniently book their tickets through the PVR INOX app or website. The screenings will be exclusively available in mainstream cinema formats, offering audiences a chance to relive the magic of these blockbuster films on the big screen.
PVR INOX Ltd co-CEO Gautam Dutta expressed his excitement about the Film Festival, stating, “The year 2023 was made special due to the sheer buzz and frenzy created by movies like Pathaan, Gadar 2, Tiger 3 and Pathaan. With this Film Festival, we are looking to extend this fervour of 2023 in the new year as well, and let the audiences enjoy the content in the manner which is most loved, that is on the giant cinema screens. This film festival is poised to be a celebration of cinematic excellence and entertainment, featuring a thoughtfully curated selection of movies that represents the pinnacle of the Indian film industry’s achievements in the past year. Our content innovation journey is adding a new chapter with this Film Festival and we are upbeat about it.”
PVR INOX has consistently set industry standards by introducing innovative content experiences to enhance the movie-watching journey. The re-release of these blockbuster films aims to make the audiences enjoy the cinematic blockbusters all over again and celebrate the magnificence of the content offered in the year 2023.
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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.
