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The curious case of Imrans mismatched socks
MUMBAI: We know how actors these days do anything to promote their films. Recently, while promoting his upcoming film, Gori Tere Pyaar Mein in Delhi, actor Imran Khan, who looked dapper in a dark pink sweater clubbed with beige pants and blue shoes, surprised the Delhiites with a mismatched pair of socks.
And the actor was flaunting it too. Imran played the same stint earlier this month on the celebrity chat show, The Front Row With Anupama Chopra. The two stints are enough to give audience an idea that the mismatched socks have something to do with the film’s story. We just hope that it has a substantial part in the film.
However, Kareena Kapoor and director Punit Malhotra were also in tow with Imran. And Kareena, who has worked with Imran earlier in Ekk Main Hu Aur Ek Tu looked elegant in a black dress.
The film, Gori Tere Pyaar Mein is a romantic comedy film written and directed by Punit Malhotra and is produced by Karan Johar under the banner of Dharma Productions. The film is releasing on 22 November.
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.
