Hindi
Release of ‘Bezubaan Ishq’ put off to next month
NEW DELHI: Sneha Ullal, who is appearing after a long hiatus in Bezubaan Ishq, has said Salman Khan “is like a mentor to me. He is the one who showed me the world of Bollywood and I would love to work with him again. He is like an angel always ready to help.”
She added that when her mother suffered from cancer, he was the first one to come up with help and appointments.
Bezubaan Ishq directed by Jashwant Gangani, is a romantic family musical with a contemporary love triangle but highlighting traditional values. The film also stars Nishant Malkani, Mugdha Godse, Darshan Jariwala, Farida Jalal, Sachin Khedekar, Smita Jaykar, Muni Jha, Alexandra Ashman, Soniya Mehta among others.
Put off to next month, the film has music by Babli Haque and Rupesh Verma.
Addressing a press meet here, Ullal who was launched by Khan in Lucky: No Time for Love justified her long hiatus saying, “I was waiting for the right time and the perfect story to make a comeback. I pretty much liked my character in Bezubaan Ishq and that is why I said yes to it. After Lucky I did not get good Bollywood offers. I did ‘Aryan’ and‘Kash…mere hote’ which unfortunately did not do well at the box office. Then I worked in a few Telugu films which to my luck did pretty well.”
Nishant Malkani who was also present said he started his career with the small screen with Miley jab ham tum. He even starred in Sasural genda phool and Ram milaye Jodi. The actor was also seen in the 2013 film Horror Story. When asked about Ullal as a co-star, he said, “She is a lady with beautiful heart. She sometimes is very innocent and sometimes acts as a tomboy.”
Bezubaan Ishq is a love triangle between Ullal, Malkani and Mugda Godse.
It has been made under the banner of Gangani Motion Pictures and has been produced by Jashwant Gangani, C.J. Gadara and Dinesh Likhiya.
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.
