Being Cyrus

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Being Cyrus

A promotional film poster for Being Cyrus.
Directed by Homi Adajania
Produced by Ambika Hinduja
Dinesh Vijan
Raman Macker
Munnish Puri
Written by Homi Adajania (screenplay)
Kersi Khambatta (story)
Starring Saif Ali Khan
Naseeruddin Shah
Dimple Kapadia
Boman Irani
Simone Singh
Music by Salim-Suleman
Distributed by Times Infotainment Media Limited
Release date(s) 2006 (India)
Running time 82 min.
Language English
Budget  ?
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Being Cyrus is an Indian English language film released in 2006. It is a psychological drama revolving around a dysfunctional Parsi (Indian Zoroastrian) family. The film was originally titled Akoori, a reference to a traditional Parsi scrambled-eggs-like side dish.

The film is the directorial debut of Homi Adajania and Saif Ali Khan's first film in English. As of December 2006, the film had become the highest grossing Indian movie in English.

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The Sethna family of Panchgani consists of a retired sculptor Dinshaw (Naseeruddin Shah) and his wife Katy (Dimple Kapadia). Dinshaw's brother Farrokh (Boman Irani), their father Fardoonjee (Honey Chhaya), and Farrokh's wife Tina (Simone Singh) reside in Bombay.

It is at this time that Cyrus Mistry (Saif Ali Khan), the narrator of the story, shows up at the Sethnas' doorstep in Panchgani one morning, a seeming wanderer who professes his admiration for Dinshaw's work and asks if he can be his apprentice. Dinshaw and Katy agree, and soon the young man becomes a part of their life. Katy makes advances towards Cyrus, which he tolerates while cryptically telling the audience that he is "playing Katy". As time passes Cyrus gets to know the oddball couple better - Dinshaw is a perpetually zoned-out eccentric, though a rather affable one, while the rather promiscuous Katy, tired of slow-moving Panchgani life and her moth-eaten marriage, has embarked on an affair with her brother-in-law Farrokh in Bombay. Katy makes Cyrus her pawn, sending him to Bombay to visit her father-in-law Fardoonjee, who lives in an extension of Farrokh's flat, with orders to get a stash of money Fardoonjee supposedly has. On meeting Fardoonjee, Cyrus realizes that he is ill-treated by Farrokh. Farrokh's timid young wife, Tina, is unable to be herself except during the few hours Farrokh is at work. The plot soon turns into a murder mystery.

[edit] Trivia

The movie's poster bears an uncanny resemblance to that of Richard Lowenstein's He Died With A Felafel In His Hand. The title also takes after Spike Jonze's Being John Malkovich

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