Hindi
‘Tere Aane Se’ to be shot in Delhi in September
The shooting for Tere Aane Se, a romantic love story, will soon begin in Delhi. Starring Purab Kohli, Gulshan Grover, Rati Agnihotri and Rituparna Sengupta, the movie will be directed by filmmaker Agnidev Chatterjee.
Rahul Bose, cousin of filmmaker Anurag Basu, has penned the script and Palash Muchhal has composed music for the film. The film will go on floors in September and will be shot at locations like Jaipur, Jodhpur, Delhi, Agra, Shimla, Manali, Nasik, Canada, etc.
Says Agnidev Chatterjee: “We will start shooting the film from 9th September. We begin at the Mehrangarh Fort in Jodhpur, and the next day at Jaipur. Then, we travel to Agra on the 11th. We shall also be shooting at various locations in Delhi on the 13th and 14th. Later, we travel to Manali for a four-day-shoot beginning on the 18th. On the 24th, we shoot at the Chail Palace and then come back to Delhi at end of the month, when we’ll be shooting at the Pataudi Palace till 6th October.”
Speaking about the story of Tere Aane Se, Chatterjee adds, “The story is a very interesting one; its basically a love story. We have a great supporting cast and will be using real locations for the shoot. Nasik Jail will also be one of our shoot locations. Besides, we shall also be shooting in places like Mehrangarh Fort, Chail Palace and Pataudi Palace for the shoot. In Agra, we plan to shoot a rock song with the backdrop of the Taj Mahal.”
Hindi
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.
