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SRK, Madhuri, Honey Singh in Malaysia for ‘Temptation Reloaded’
MUMBAI: Bollywood’s King Khan – Shah Rukh Khan – is in Malaysia for his concert ‘Temptation Reloaded’.
Speaking at the ‘Temptation Reloaded’ press conference at the Ritz Carlton last afternoon said, “It’s always a sense of pride for me whenever I come to Malaysia. I often feel that I have never left home in fact. It’s a great feeling to be back to such lovely people once again.”
Said to be the biggest Bollywood concert production, ‘Temptation Reloaded’ offers all the music, love and drama of the Bollywood silver screen together with Shah Rukh Khan’s beautiful leading ladies Madhuri Dixit and Rani Mukherji today at Stadium Merdeka. Apart from the big stars, our very own desi rapper Yo Yo Honey Singh will also be performing along with the team.
Despite injury, pain and wounds, SRK is all set to rehearse and then perform in Malaysia. Shah Rukh Khan tweeted, “On way to Malaysia for Temptations. Little in pain but between Madhuri rani yo yo arijit and the team we will entertain u well.”
The concert is in conjunction with the ongoing Visit Malaysia Year 2014 celebrations. Shah Rukh Khan also said at the do that it was his “duty” to promote the country as a tourism destination.
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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.
