Being Cyrus

2005 • 81 minutes

About this movie

Fardoonjee Sethna, an aging man, his two sons Dinshaw and Farokh and their wives Katy and Tina head The Sethna family. The entire family used to live together, but over time internal conflicts have driven them to live in separate households. Dinshaw and Katy live in Panchgani, while Farokh and Tina stay with Fardoonjee in a dilapidated building in Mumbai. A sculptor by profession, Dinshaw meets Cyrus and though a complete stranger, he allows him to stay at his house as a paying guest-cum-sculpting apprentice. Cyrus becomes close to the Sethna family but when an extra marital affair starts in the household, tension grows, skeletons start coming out of the closets and something bizarre happens as layers start unfolding one after another. A deep-rooted secret starts to unravel and mystery around the character of Cyrus starts engulfing everyone.