Remember the dinner table scene? No screaming. No dramatic background score. Just the scrape of cutlery and the slow realization that every character is silently negotiating a betrayal.
emerged as a taut, English-language psychological dark comedy. Originally titled being cyrus -2005-
The story is centered around the Sethnas, a dysfunctional Parsi family split between the quiet hill station of Panchgani and a bustling, claustrophobic apartment in Mumbai. The narrative is set into motion when a mysterious young man named Cyrus Mistry (Saif Ali Khan) arrives at the Panchgani home of Dinshaw Sethna (Naseeruddin Shah), a free-spirited, pot-smoking sculptor, and his erratic wife, Katy (Dimple Kapadia). Cyrus offers to help Dinshaw in his studio and is quickly absorbed into their daily lives. Remember the dinner table scene