Hindi
Kalki Koechlin’s ‘Margarita, With A Straw’ gets thumbs up from industry
MUMBAI: The Kalki Koechlin starrer Margarita, With A Straw has been hugely appreciated by the Bollywood film fraternity including Amitabh Bachchan, Aamir Khan, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, Shraddha Kapoor, Anurag Kashyap, Farah Khan, Soni Razdan, Radhika Apte, Aditi Rao Hydari and Colors CEO Raj Nayak among others.
A film by Sonali Bose, Margarita, With A Straw has already been screened at various film festivals like Toronto, Busan and Cannes amongst others winning recognition to its credit like the best actress and the best film awards. The film has been applauded for its heartwarming story and unbiased approach at various issues of society.
Some of the accolades received on Twitter are:
Director Farah Khan loved the film and tweeted, “Just saw #MaragaritaWithAStraw .. It’s a 2 hero film..Director Shonali Bose n actress kalki koechlin..!! Take a bow”
Calling the film a moving experience actress Soni Razdan tweeted, “Margarita, With A Straw…one of the most sensitive entertaining and moving films I have seen, brilliantly directed by Shonali Bose, so proud!”
Nayak tweeted, “Watched #margaritawithastraw. What a beautiful movie, so sensitively made, touches a chord in you. LOVED it. #shonalibose Proud of you :)”
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.
