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Actor Vindoo Dara Singh nabbed for links with bookies in spot-fixing case
NEW DELHI: Bigg Boss fame Vindoo Dara Singh, son of the award-winning wrestler and actor who died last year, has been arrested for links with bookies, following the arrest of another bookie Ramesh Vyas.
Vindoo is reported to have acted as a link between players and bookies.
Vindoo is the winner of the third season of TV reality show Bigg Boss.
Earlier in the day, the supreme court refused to stop all remaining matches of Indian Premier League (IPL) in view of the spot-fixing scandal. The court said entire IPL can‘t be banned just because of certain irregularities on the part of a few players. The court asked the Board for Control of Cricket in India (BCCI) to ensure that "cricket should remain a gentleman‘s game".
Slamming the BCCI, the court said, "Definitely there is some kind of irregularity. But the biggest problem is the lackadaisical attitude of the BCCI. It should stop. There has to be some scientific dispassionate and impartial approach to solve these problems."
The apex court directed the one-man inquiry committee appointed by BCCI to submit its report within 15 days on the spot-fixing scandal.
The 49-year-old actor began his career with ‘Karan‘ (1994). Then he acted in Punjabi language film, Rab Dian Rakhan (1996), which was directed by his father. Since then, he has acted in many films, mostly in supporting roles.
He has also acted in TV serials, including the role of Hanuman in the TV serial Jai Veer Hanuman, much like his father did in Ramayana. He has also starred Ssshhhh…Koi Hai and Karma. Vindu has also essayed an important role in the serial ‘Black’ on 9X. He has made appearance in television shows like Master Chef 2 (Star Plus), Comedy Circus (Sony), All Most Famous (Zoom TV), Maa Exchange (Sony), Vindu has also done commercial for Pepsi with Ranbir Kapoor.
Vindu has also worked in many successful films like Garv, Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya, Partner, Khushboo, Team – The Force, Kisse Pyaar Karoon, Kambakkht Ishq, Maruti, Housefull, Lion of Punjab, Housefull2, Joker, Jai Jwala Maa, Son of Sardar and many more films in Punjabi and Telugu, Sajid Nadiadwala‘s Next two and Sajid Khan‘s Himmatwala etc.
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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.
