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Polish actress Natalia Janoszek to make Bollywood debut
NEW DELHI: Polish actress Natalia Janoszek is the latest entrant in Bollywood.
Janoszek, who was crowned Miss Bikini Universe at a pageant in China, is making her Bollywood debut in Flame.
Flame is produced by Varun Singh and directed by Rajiv Ruia. The movie, which has nine international film festival awards and nominations, is set to be released shortly.
It is a story of the transformation of a simple meek woman, who blooms into a confident human being and finds the strength to fight for her belief, love and humanity.
Singh said, “We needed an international artist for the role so when we were looking for a suitable face from Hollywood we found Natalia Janoszek the Polish actress in China where she had won the Miss Bikini Universe 2013 contest. Natalia has immense potential to prove her mettle here in Bollywood and she fits the role better.”
Speaking about her Bollywood debut, Janoszek added, “The movie is a perfect vehicle for my entry into Bollywood. I have always wanted to be part of Bollywood as I am a dancer at heart and Bollywood is the right platform for me to showcase my talent. I am here to stay and want to do many Bollywood movies in the coming years.”
Janoszek has worked in American film Coachella Massacre and is a former Miss Poland.
Flames also stars Hrishitaa Bhatt, Hemant Pandey and Rajkumar Kanojia and Hollywood actor John Delong.
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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.
