Being Cyrus

I caught up with Being Cyrus a couple of days back. Its a cliche in Bollywood to say its different, but this cliche fits well with Being Cyrus. Everything about the movie is refreshingly different. The format of story telling is more literary than cinematic. I felt like i was reading a short story not watching a movie.The cinematograhy and music add more layes of mood to an already moody plot and the cast is terrific.

But the movie is a bit all over the place and jumps genre every half an hour. You just cant place what the movie is about, is it charecter driven plot or a story driven plot?, is it a comedy or a murder mystery?, there is no way you can know. As i said its all of them and all over the place. Homi the director and the writers never dig into the charecters deeply. Yes there are flashbacks showing Cyrus's childhood trauma and a dream sequence showing his present nightmare, but its just that nothing more. Many more charecters are simply unexplained. I guess its intentional. Homi lays out the charecters in the first 10-15 min of his movie and tells us these are crazy eccentric people. And if they are crazy and eccentric their life should be all over the place , hence i think the movie is delibretely all over the place.

But ulitamately its an extremely satisfying movie, because its an immensly clever movie. Go watch it