Being Cyrus

Was sure even before I started to watch the movie that there wasn’t a way in the world I wasn’t going to like it. Have been obsessing about the director, respect Naseeruddin Shah, like Saif and love Boman Irani !! It is a little scary, how letting a person into your circle could potentially unhinge your life (the perfectly apt byline for the movie --- “who you let in can change your life”). Cyrus comes in as an apprentice to Shah who is a sculptor lost in pot and his dreamt up reality. His bored and neglected wife sees Cyrus as a cog in her dreamt up scheme and he forever changes their troubled but quiet existence.

The movie has some beautifully crafted moments, my favorite being where Dimple is overcome by tenderness when she listens to why Naseeruddin was in the well, but the next moment, his careless hand breaks the reverie and she cannot help but scream at him. Happens so often in our lives; we are left reacting to peripheral actions and never get around to expressing or appreciating people for anything deeper or intent. But I guess things happen too fast and patience is scarce. The movie is slightly disappointing further on because it simply tells a story but then it does tell it well. Dimple is pretty amazing in the scene in which she goes hysterical with helplessness. Was really happy when I knew that this deviant low-budget tale was a mild success at the box-office :).

A much nicer review to be found here.