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Yash Raj Films celebrates 1 million fans on Facebook
MUMBAI: Marking yet another milestone in its illustrious journey, Yash Raj Films (YRF), has become the first Indian production house to have a million fans on Facebook.
As a celebration of this achievement, the banner‘s Facebook page cover photo is a collage of the the hits it has produced featuring almost every star it has worked with in the recent past.
The banner enjoys a strong digital presence and regularly engages the audiences with interesting and interactive content. Yash Raj Films digital team constantly strives to entertain the audiences, just like their films. Their Facebook page has the fastest growing fan base with an addition of more than 3000 likes every day.
Yash Raj Films‘ page reflects a new theme every month. The current theme is, ‘YRF Dance Dhamaka‘ which showcases all the dance tracks from all YRF films. The production house regularly holds contests and updates their digital properties with latest and exclusive news.
Last year, YRF churned out one of the biggest hits in of 2012 Ek tha Tiger with Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif in the lead. This year too, it has a couple of much looked forward to releases like Arjun Kapoor starrer Aurangzeb and Amir Khan and Abhishek Bachchan starrer Dhoom:3.
Started in 1970 by one of the most respected and accomplished film makers from India Yash Chopra, the banner has given Indian and global cinema goers some timeless cinematic pieces like Silsila, Trishul, Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jaayegne, the Dhoom franchise and Chak De! India.
YRF has been known to keep up with times and often produce movies much ahead of the times, a legacy that has been passed on passed its founder the Late Yash Chopra. Its success on the digital/social media forum is another example of how the production house understands its audiences and puts in the effort to be where they are.
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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.
