Move over The Bourne Identity and The Talented Mr. Ripley. Shortcomings or not, we’d rather watch our own, original and desi version of a psychological crime thriller. Complete with flashbacks, surrealistic dream sequences, timeline juggling, a vamp and a fall guy.
Set in a Mumbaiyya Parsi community, Being Cyrus is 100% kosher, and comes with a superb background score and a voice-over that tells the tale with acerbic wit. The plot itself is dark, and divorced forthrightly from the Bollywood’s ubiquitous frills and flounces of morality. It peels off with excruc....