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Salman walks the red carpet of Filmfare Awards after 15 Years
MUMBAI: The most awaited awards function of the season, the 59th Idea Filmfare awards will see the entertainment quotient rise to new levels as bollywood’s top superstars will decorate the evening with their heart stopping performances. History will be made when industry’s dabangg star Salman Khan will walk the red carpet after 15 years. This is not all! Salman will also be seen setting the stage on fire with his adrenaline filled performance on his hit songs.
The entertainment doesn’t stop here! The very cool Ranbir Kapoor and the very sexy Priyanka Chopra will have everyone in splits with their wacky chemistry and outstanding hosting skills. Ranveer Singh, Deepika Padukone, Katrina Kaif, Shahid Kapoor will sizzle the stage when they perform to their hit songs from their latest films. The audience will be left asking for more when dhak dhak girl Madhuri Dixit will perform mujra on her famous numbers like Maar daala and her latest hit Atariya from Dedh Ishqiya.
The evening’s big winners will see Rakesh Om Prakash Mehra walk away with the best film title for Bhaag Milkha Bhaag. Deepika Padukone and Farhan Akhtar will be seen teary eyed walking away with the black lady for the best actor male and female in a leading role award in their film Ram Leela and Bhaag Milkha Bhaag respectively.
So get ready for a star studded evening filled with some unforgettable performances this Sunday, January 26 2013 at 8pm only on Sony Entertainment Television.
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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.
