Mazel Vyas, a Vadodara native, starred alongside experienced producer, writer, and director Prakash Jha in the short film Highway Nights, lined up in the nomination list for the Oscar 2023 in the Short Films category. The story follows an underage highway sex prostitute and a father-daughter relationship with a truck driver.  Prakash Jha, an Indian filmmaker, and actor known for his socio-political features describes his works as pure entertainment rather than parallel cinema. He was introduced to cinema while studying to be a painter in Mumbai. In 1975, while still in the middle of his film editing course, he made his first documentary, Under the Blue. Faces After Storm (1984), his documentary on the 'Bihar Shari