Ritu's Reviews

A quaint 90 minute make, Being Cyrus is much like a Hollywood film. The digestible length allows you to absolve its unique style and abstract content.

Director Homi Adajania follows in the creative footsteps of Ram Gopal Varma. Much like Varma's works, Being Cyrus, challenges the usual trend of hindi cinema and offers a contemporary watch. Homi Adajania directs with deftness. The dialouges, primarily in english and some parsi add relic to the humor.
A basic murder mystery with dark comedic flavor is what Being Cyrus is all about.
The actors play a huge role in making this an adventurous watch. Saif Ali Khan proves to be of substance. Simone Singh is highly competent. Booman Irani is incredible. Naseerudhin Shah effective as always. Dimple Kapadia a natural. Honey Chhaya is perfect and Manoj Pahwa hilarious.
The light hearted, smooth paced film will appear odd to most, while its eccentric nature will appeal to others. Regardless, its one step up and to the right of breaking midway between commercial and parallel cinema, receiving Ritu's 2 1/2 stars.