It was nicely spooky "Being Cyrus"

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There were just three reasons which propelled me to watch "Being Cyrus":

1) it was indeed a long time since Suchi and I had gone to a movie and hence it became mandatory on us to watch one this weekend. Strangely, there was no other film really worth watching ("in our perception", lest someone starts throwing up names of movies)

2) the film is presented by Times Group (my ex-employer) and without saying, would definitely be maximum "bang for the buck" as their products always have been

2) finally, promos had an element of slickness and spookiness attached, especially the website www.beingcyrus.com. "Awesome" would be the word to best describe it - modeled on the lines of Times of India and ET e-papers

And, Homi Adajania's 2 hour odd long English movie did prove to be a entertainer with a taut screenplay, some refreshingly apt music (by Salim and Sulaiman..just dont know who they are) along with an unexpected climax.

The film has taken a magnified look at a Parsi family. In my opinion, Parsis in India are "konjam" (small in Tamil) confused lot - caught between time warps and cultures, groping to find their identity.

Thankfully, Saif proves that he can carry a film through on his shoulders, with a non-chalant attitude and has played the right amount of histrionics (unlike in the regular Hindi flicks). Obviously, being in the company of a star cast replete with Naseerudding Shah, Dimple and Boman Irani, he better have a rub-off effect.

The movie definitely would not be a box offic hit and might cater only to the top segment of the audience, which probably is well understood considering that it has made its rounds in international film festivals before hitting the box office. But it is definitely worth a dekko.