Cyrus Broacha

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Cyrus Broacha (born 1971) is a MTV India VJ. He is famous as a stand-up comedian and prankster. He is born to a Parsi father and Catholic mother.

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Cyrus was educated at Cathedral and John Connon School. He made his debut at 14 in a desi version of Neil Simon's Brighton Memoirs. He came into limelight during his college St Xavier's Malhar festival. After he graduated, Cyrus went to the Lee Strasberg Acting Studio in New York where he studied acting for theatre.

After coming back to India, he acted in many commercials, television serials and plays. His candid-camera show "MTV Bakra" on MTV India became very popular.

He got married on January 3, 2001 to Ayesha, a photographer. In partenership with Kunal Vijaykar, he launched a production house , which is now producing commercials. The new Clinic All Clear Ads are results of the same.

He led India's Rock the Vote campaign and represented MTV at the UNAIDS conference in Hanover, Germany. He moderated the Indian segment of "Be Heard - A Global Discussion With Colin Powell" in February 2002. ^[1]

He also hosts the programme The Week That Wasn't on CNN-IBN