Hindi
Bhaag Milkha Bhaag walks away with maximum wins at the 9th Renault Star Guild Awards
MUMBAI: The 9th edition of the Renault Star Guild Awards was brought to a close this evening with the biggest stars of the Indian Film and Television industry at Mumbai’s NSCI Ground, Worli. The eventful night saw Salman Khan take centre stage for the second year running as the host for the evening, sharing screen space and a brilliant camaraderie with his colleagues.
The Film & Television Producers Guild of India announced the winners in Film & Television for the year gone by where the Milkha Singh biopic, Bhaag Milkha Bhaag were the favourites of the night, walking away with an impressive 8 awards. Farhan Akthar swept the Best Actor in a leading role category and saw the film take home Best Screenplay and Best Story for Prasoon Joshi, Best Cinematography, Best Sound Design, Best Actress in a supporting role for Divya Dutta, Best Director for Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra and the enviable Best Film award for Viacom 18 Motions Pictures and Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra.
Speaking of his Best Actor in a leading role, Farhan Akthar said, “The biggest thank-you goes to Milkha Singh and his family for all the support and passion that he put in to me. When I met him for the first time, he told me about the sacrifices he went through in his life and Prasoon has captured it very well in the title track.”
2013’s heartwarming The Lunchbox won 3 awards including Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Nawazuddin Siddiqui, the Star Verdict Awards for Irfaan Khan and The Yash Chopra Award for the Most Promising Debut Director to Ritesh Batra.
2013, being a year for big ticket films that saw an unprecedented number of movie-goers with box office sales spilling over the Rs. 500 cr mark The Film & Television Producers Guild of India introduced the Guild Hall of Fame announcing 2013’s nine major film titles from the year gone by to be included into this exclusive club. The announcement made by Ramesh Sippy and host, Salman Khan saw Race 2, Aashiqui 2, Krrish 3, Chennai Express, Dhoom 3, Bhaag Milkha Bhaag, Grand Masti, Goliyon Ka Rasleela: Ramleela and Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani being inducted into the Guild Hall of Fame.
Commemorate the 100th birth anniversary of late filmmaker Khwaja Ahmed Abbas, the Guild also introduced the K. A. Abbas Honour for Cinema with Social Sensitivity. Mr. Amitabh Bachchan gave away the award naming the film, Shahid as its first ever recipient.
Varun Sharma of Fukrey fame and Arshad Warsi (Jolly LLB) shared the award for Best Performance in a comic role while Sushant Singh Rajput walked away with the award for Most Promising Debut – Male for the unconventional film, Kai Po Che! Vaani Kapoor took home the award for Most Promising Debut – Female for the film, Shuddh Desi Romance.
The evening was coupled with enthralling performances by the superstars themselves including Kareena Kapoor Khan, Prabhu Deva who was joined by young starlet, Sonakshi Sinha, Shahid Kapoor, Shraddha Kapoor and Jacqueline Fernandez.
The Renault Star Guild Awards have been instituted by the Film and Television Producers Guild of India with an objective to establish a standard for honouring excellence and achievements in the Indian film industry.
The 9th Renault Star Guild Awards is presented by Renault and Star TV. The Brand Parners for the Awards are Gionee Smart Phone and the Videocon Group. WeChat is the official Messaging Partner for the event.
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FILM AWARDS |
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AWARD |
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FILM |
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Best Editing |
Chandrashekhar Prajapati |
Madras Café |
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Best Cinematography |
Binod Pradhan |
Bhaag Milkha Bhaag |
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Best Art Direction |
Rashid Khan |
Goliyon Ka Rasleela: Ramleela |
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Best Sound Design |
Nakul Kamte |
Bhaag Milkha Bhaag |
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Best Sound Mixing |
Bishwadeep Chatterjee |
Madras Café |
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Best Special Effects |
Dhoom 3 Krrish 3 |
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Best Costume Design |
Anju Modi, Maxima Basu |
Goliyon Ka Rasleela: Ramleela |
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Best Screenplay |
Prasoon Joshi |
Bhaag Milkha Bhaag |
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Best Story |
Prasoon Joshi |
Bhaag Milkha Bhaag |
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Best Dialogue |
Hussain Dalal |
Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani |
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Red FM Bajaate Raho Dialogue of the Year |
Himanshu Sharma |
Raanjhana |
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Best Choreography |
Remo D’souza |
Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani (Badtameez Dil & Balam Pichkari) |
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Best Lyrics |
Mithoon |
Aashiqui 2 (Tum Hi Ho) |
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Best Music |
Pritam |
Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani |
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Best Playback Singer – Male |
Arijit Singh |
Aashiqui 2 (Tum Hi Ho) |
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Best Playback Singer – Female |
Bhoomi Trivedi |
Goliyon Ka Rasleela: Ramleela (Ram Chahe Leela) |
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Best Performance in a Comic Role |
Varun Sharma Arshad Warsi |
Fukrey Jolly LLB |
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Best Performance in a Negative Role |
Supriya Pathak |
Goliyon Ka Rasleela: Ramleela |
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Best Actor in a Supporting Role |
Nawazuddin Siddiqui |
The Lunchbox |
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Best Actress in a Supporting Role |
Divya Dutta |
Bhaag Milkha Bhaag |
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Most Promising Debut Male |
Sushant Singh Rajput |
Kai Po Che! |
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Most Promising Debut Female |
Vaani Kapoor |
Shuddh Desi Romance |
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The Yash Chopra Award for The Most Promising Debut Director |
Ritesh Batra |
The Lunchbox |
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Best Actor in a Leading Role |
Farhan Akthar |
Bhaag Milkha Bhaag |
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Best Actress in a Leading Role |
Deepika Padukone |
Chennai Express |
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Best Director |
Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra |
Bhaag Milkha Bhaag |
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Best Film |
Viacom18 Motion Pictures & Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra |
Bhaag Milkha Bhaag |
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Lifetime Achievement Honour |
Salim Khan |
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Lifetime Achievement Honour |
Tanuja Mukherjee |
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K. A. Abbas Award for Social Sensitivity in Hindi Cinema |
Shahid |
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Renault Star Guild Entertainer of the Year |
Shahrukh Khan |
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Star Verdict of the Year |
Irfaan Khan for The Lunchbox |
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Jodi of the Year |
Aditya Roy Kapur and Shraddha Kapoor (Aashiqui 2) |
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TELEVISION AWARDS |
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AWARD |
NAME |
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Best Reality TV Show |
Endemol India for Bigg Boss 7 |
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Best Writer |
Balika Vadhu |
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Best Mythological Series |
Star Plus for Mahabharat |
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Best Cast |
Cast of Mahabharat |
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Best Actor |
Rajat Tokas for Jodha Akbar |
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Best Actress |
Drashti Dhammi for Madhubala Ankita Lokhande for Pavitra Rishta |
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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.
