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Reliance MediaWorks quarter net loss at Rs 2.33 bn
MUMBAI: Media and entertainment company Reliance MediaWorks has reported a consolidated net loss of Rs 2.33 billion for the quarter ended 30 September compared to Rs 1.20 billion for the same period last year.
The company‘s total income from operations stood at Rs 2.14 billion in the quarter which is 8.59 per cent lower than Rs 2.35 billion reported in the earlier quarter.
The current fiscal of the company extended till 30 September. In a filing on the Bombay Stock Exchange, the company informed: “The data in respect of the 18 months from April 1, 2010 to September 30, 2011 has been derived as a summation of the data for the year ended March 31, 2011 and the half year ended September 30, 2011. Accordingly, results for the quarter ended September 30, 2011, have been included as the corresponding quarter.”
Reliance MediaWorks‘ revenue from film production services business stood at Rs 353.5 million. Income from theatrical exhibition and television/film production and distribution segments was Rs 1.63 billion and Rs 173.9 million respectively.
The company‘s current liabilities stood at Rs 20.89 billion. Earlier this year, the company‘s board had approved raising up to Rs six billion through rights issue to ‘substantially reduce the debt‘ and is in the process of raising another Rs 6.05 billion from a foreign private equity fund by selling a substantial minority stake in its Film and Media Services division.
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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.
