Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Being Cyrus.
I watched Being Cyrus last night. It’s an Indian English-language drama released in 2006. it has a couple of big Bollywood names in it — Saif Ali Khan and Naseeruddin Shah — but it’s definitely not a Bollywood film (no wet saris here).
The action takes place in Mumbai and Panchgani with a cast of just seven lead characters, most of whom are Parsi and members of the Sethna family. Cyrus Mistry (Saif Ali Khan) — the lead and narrator — apparently just wanders into the family’s life, and it seemed like it would turn out to be a soppy ’self-discovery’ type of film. Fortunately, the story takes a couple of dark turns and turns out more interesting than I had thought it would.
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