Shyam Rajagopalan
I should say, I had to connect to this movie, as my story in bits and parts, because I was born in, Jamshedpur, have two elder sisters, and both married, while one sister lives with her husband, my dad lives alone. Fardoonji, resembles my dad, in, Mumbai, as a widower. The main resemblance of the story is, I frequented between, Chennai and Jamshedpur, during my vacations! For a second, when I watched this film, I felt, they mentioned the name, Shyam, somewhere in the movie! It was so strongly related to my own story, "Had to obey my sister all the time, and didn't have a life of my own!". While, the story has been relevant, the twists and unexpected suspense is where, they added their own fiction. It's not completely original, because, every story has some real incidents! But, a wonderful movie overall! And, we did have many parsis in, school, and the Tatas. I started my schooling with, Hill Top School, and the Sethnas, live on a hill top, in the movie, which resembles the location of the cliff, at Hudco Dam, Jamshedpur!
Amrit Singh
Well this one is different. Different from usual Indian films. Different in theme, treatment, narration, direction, story. Debutant director Homi shows great promise for the future, as he extracts great work from all the actors. Though he was blessed with some of the finest actors to work with, this fact does not reduces his good work. You expect a good show from Naseeruddin Shah, Boman Irani, Dimple Kapadia and good thing is they don't disappoint. Saif has sharpened his acting skills considerably, and it shows. So, all the recipe for a great film..?? Well almost..!! The director runs out of breath just as he was approaching the finish line, and churns out a rather low profile climax to an otherwise intriguing story. Still a great first effort. Watch it for its dare to be different, watch for it's amongst the finest English cinemas made in India.
Kruttik Aggrawal
I am thrilled to witness this change in the Indian Cinema. Gone are the days when débutante directors used to create the trite love triangles or Suraj-B family crap. This director just displayed that a good direction with a sublime story line is all it takes to manufacture brilliance.Being Cyrus is a very dark movie concentrating primarily on the human psyche and absurd responses that humans resort to under different situations. Without talking more about the movie, I can only say that 'Being Cyrus' is a serious display of 'real' cinema.A must watch.
oo_la_la_us
It's an awful movie. - There is no story whatsoever. Attempts have been made to capture the psyche of people and make a movie - fails miserably. The links are broken and there is no logical flow to the film. Cyrus walks into a Parsi family,and tries to see thru the psyche of that family - 2 brothers,their wives,and the father.He finally kills the father and elder son, for weirdly complicated reasons dating back to his childhood.The other son and his wife are charged for the murders.He walks out and feels he is free again.There is no head or tail to the movie. Do not know what was the hype about.Its a different movie - yes, but leaves no mark of its own.
AD
