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Ready to train like MC Mary Kom?
MUMBAI: Everybody is envying Priyanka Chopra’s toned body and all credit goes to the training same as that of MC Mary Kom! People obsessed about health and good physique are going crazy trying to achieve this new benchmark, and makers of the movie Mary Kom have just made it easy! In a brand new on-ground campaign launched recently and continuing till month end, fans can take part in the ‘Mary Kom Boot Kamp’ challenge and get access to MC Mary Kom’s daily routine workout!
In association with Gold’s Gym, MC Mary Kom has set a vigorous routine for all Bollywood and fitness enthusiasts. This challenge is open to all fans willing to go up against ‘Mary Kom’s set routine of five activities in the stipulated time. The ‘Mary Kom Boot Kamp’ will be held in select Gold’s Gyms across Mumbai, Pune, Bengaluru, Panchkula, Delhi NCR, Jaipur, Lucknow, Guwahati and Kolkata. Participants will be divided in three batches of 10 each and those who complete the fastest will be the winners of their respective batch.
The nation’s fastest 35 who complete the tasks in the least amount of time will be declared by Viacom 18 on 1st September on their social properties and win cool prizes like one month/year free gym membership, exclusive Mary Kom merchandise, movie tickets etc. Adding to the excitement would be a chance to meet PC herself! The actress is planning a visit to all the nine cities to motivate her fans, and the winners get a special chance to meet and greet this Bollywood Diva.
The fans are equally inquisitive about a day in the life of our five-time successive World Boxing Champion MC Mary Kom, to give a sneak peak, she herself created this exercise routine which involves exercises such as burpees, kettle bell swings, roll over push-ups, jab cross punches, kettle bell, single handed clean & press, swiss ball plank hold, chin ups, squat and overhead press.
To register, participants can walk into the nearest branch of Gold’s Gym and register at the ‘Mary Kom’ registration desk.
‘Mary Kom’, the film is about the Indian Boxer and Olympic Bronze medallist MC Mary Kom. Depicting her life, struggles, family and her perseverance to be the best – Priyanka Chopra stars as Mary Kom along with Darshan Kumaar, Sunil Thapa, Shishir Sharma and American actor Zachary Coffin. Directed by Omung Kumar, ‘Mary Kom’ is produced by Viacom18 Motion Pictures & Sanjay Leela Bhansali. The film is scheduled for release on September 5, 2014.
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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.
