Cyrus another Indian Contribution

India has given birth to a new genre of cinema through ‘Being Cyrus’. Astounding and unparallel, the film will hold the audience unaware.
Apparently projecting the life of a Zoroastrian family in snippets, the first half will not score much. Even the initial part of the second half will give enough space to the audience to yawn and stretch, however, if you keep your patience you are sure to expect some shock and that is too all of a sudden. The kind you will really love.
Entering as an apprentice in the nucleus of Sethna family which is run by sculptor Dinshaw (Naseeruddin Shah) and his wife Katy (Dimple Kapadia), Cyrus (Saif Ali Khan), found the relation among the members quite queer. Farokh (Boman Irani), younger brother to Dinshaw and a frustrated specimen who finally got married to Tina (Simone Singh), runs an illegitimate relation with Katy. Katy takes Cyrus into her confidence and tries to ease the existing relationship with Farokh, which adds the twist to the story.
The direction and editing is so fluid that multiple points of time audience will really have to shake them to make them realize that they are not watching a documentary. This leads to a very easy flowing story telling which is a ‘call of time’.
Director Homi Adajania, has put in the best possible research efforts in creating a movie which follows, very closely, the life pattern of a sect. How a person talks, how a person reacts, how a person expresses and interacts are so well integrated in the film that it becomes impossible to understand that we are watching a cinema. On contrary it gives the vibes that we are actually peeping into the Sethna family.
Apart from being labeled as a mystery, which sure it is, ‘Being Cyrus’ can be considered as a narrative of today’s time narrated by a fresh and new story teller.
If stories like these flow in, Indian Cinema will go beyond boundaries of World Cinema. We as audience are looking forward towards that day.