That was an excellent one.

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Being Cyrus is a wonderful and intense psychological drama. It is a dark, comic, urbane and very interesting film about a young man who shows up on the doorstep of a dysfunctional Sethna family, led by a carefree sculptor named Dinshaw, who Cyrus claims to be a fan of. That's where he resides, working as Dinshaw's apprentice and assistant. Cyrus gets close to Dinshaw's adulterous and impulsive wife Katy. Through his narration and their relations the story presents us the other half of the family living in an old dilapidated building in Mumbai - Dinshaw's brother Farookh, who lives with his young bride Tina and their father Fardon, a neglected old man who is badly maltreated by his son. Thrown between these two families, Cyrus has to materialise a plan, which seems to be quite evident throughout the movie but is revealed only towards the end. The mystery is not solved until the film's final scenes. An engagingly complicated and twisted script is the strongest link of Being Cyrus. The film is riveting, symbolic and straight to the point. It is not your run-of-the-mill Bollywood film, it is a different and fresh product which celebrates its uniqueness, and that's one of the things it must be applauded for. Cyrus is a young sophisticated man whose silence often says more than his actual words. Saif Ali Khan brilliantly displays this aspect of Cyrus's nature. His narration is also very effective. Naseeruddin Shah does not disappoint in a greatly restrained act, but he actually does not have that much to work with. Dimple Kapadia, though very sexy as the neurotic Katy, is surprisingly disappointing and at times her acting looks forced. Boman Irani is excellent in his role. Simone Singh does very well, too. To sum it up, Being Cyrus is a fun watch. It is intelligently written and well directed, and it is only one hour and 25 minutes long, quite an exception.

Being Cyrus is a film that one would never expect to come out of Bollywood. It is more in the genre of independent cinema. A dark film indeed, Being Cyrus takes an extremely different approach to storytelling and formatting the movie. Haunting, abstract images run amok in strange, perversive ways foreshadowing and hinting at the hidden intents of the complex characters, all of which have ugly sides to their personalities and desires. The ending is quite interesting. However, the way the movie is presented does make it quite an intense challenge to grasp all the messages being thrown at the audience (which is purely intentional). This is one of those movies where you have to hammer your head hard to try to understand anything, but it is encouraging to see such bright, young talent coming out of India. Out of the cast, my favorite performance was that of Dimple. If you like dark/serious/indie flicks, this one's definitely for you.

Cyrus does not believe in sentimentality of any kind. He cannot be held down and merely uses people. Even if it is his sister.To make his task easier, the Sethna family is not too likable either. They use each other shamelessly.The darkness of all this is lightened by the humor. It keeps you watching the movie, edge of seat, waiting for next, not wanting to end.The acting is first class. Saif is safe and dependable. He is just right. For the movie, he is Cyrus, revealing his character as the movie progresses. No one can fault Naseer, Boman Irani, Simone Singh. All perfect. And Dimple, she lets herself go. Usually asked upon to play a graceful aging beautiful woman in various films. Here she is called upon to play a slatternly, dissatisfied, sluttish woman who is a go-getter. Her out of control behaviour in the police station that seals her wretched fate was great.Inspector Lovely was a lovely treat. How often we see the kind.A delicious treat of a film. To be cherished and kept on a legal DVD and seen again and again

I went into this movie expecting a movie that tries to to hard to be different and got just that.From the beginning of the movie you know that its going another one of those movies made by people who fail to realise the more they try to be different the more they become the same.The same old story of the complicated guy with a twisted past and maybe a twisted future hell how different is that. there must have been at least a million so called arty movies made on that theme.This movie tried just to hard to be different and suffered for it. the only likable part of the movie are the stereotypes the old bawa buildings the bawa insults and bawa quirkiness the hard d's, the old bawa charsis,etc each and every stereotype was lovable. it makes you wonder..... what obsession do filmmakers have with being different.The other thing going for this movie is the very short length at little less than 90 minutes you can even ignore the not so good acting. Saif ali khan should stick to his sweety roles he started of talking like a perfect bawa like very one else started but by the end of the movie the accent looked very very fake and tended to disappear completely.Also the end was quite predictable (warning here i get them almost fully right 9.5 times out of ten). The acting was strictly OK only Boman and naseeudin shone above the rest but thats not saying much considering the OK acting. The background music is non-existent and save for a few funny scenes this movie is quite boring.All in all an OK movie which could have been much better. Do go for it if you like these kind of art-house movies with no meaning then go watch this movie.