Being Cyrus -2005- -

If you haven’t seen it, I won’t ruin the final act. But here is a hint: Being Cyrus is not a mystery about who dies. It is a mystery about who was already dead before the story began.

The film opens with Cyrus Mistry (Saif Ali Khan)—a cynical, long-haired, chain-smoking sculptor with a mysterious past—being released from an asylum. He is adrift until he meets the elderly, eccentric Dinshaw (Naseeruddin Shah), who invites him to stay at his family estate in the misty hill station of Panchgani. being cyrus -2005-

(Boman Irani): Dinshaw's cruel brother living in Mumbai. If you haven’t seen it, I won’t ruin the final act

is a study of how unresolved childhood trauma manifests in adulthood. The characters are driven by primal vices: The film opens with Cyrus Mistry (Saif Ali

Director Homi Adajania, making his debut, did something radical. He treated an Indian-English film not with the reverence of art cinema, but with the gritty tension of a Coen brothers thriller. The camera lingers. The silences are deafening. The humor is so dry it draws blood.