Saif Ali Khan had a good 2005. It saw him picking up a National Award for Hum Tum, lapping up applause for Parineeta, and raking in the moolah with Salaam Namaste.
This year, even as the actor jumps into intense gear with Vishal Bhardwaj's Othello remake Omkara, first he has a chance to go quirky.
Here's a look at Saif Ali Khan's peculiar next release, Homi Adjania's Being Cyrus.
Meet Dinshaw Sethna.
Naseeruddin Shah plays this eccentric sculptor has-been, a man who lives reclusively around the Panchgani hill station in Maharashtra.
Dinshaw, a blissful admirer of marijuana, meets a stranger, Cyrus (Saif), and decides to let him into his house.
The prospect of a young man sharing her roof intrigues Dinshaw's wife Katy, played by Bollywood's
Mrs Robinson, Dimple Kapadia.
Not able to compete successfully for her husband's affections against a temptingly rolled-up joint, she decides to concentrate her affections on Cyrus.
The Sethnas are an extremely dysfunctional family, and the film shuttles between the Panchgani house and an old Mumbai building where live the other Sethnas -- Boman Irani and Simone Singh.
Things were relatively normal, but Cyrus' entry as an outsider shakes up the Sethnas' fragile web of relationships. And everything unspools, rapidly.
Generating laughs on the international festival circuit, Being Cyrus seems like a rather intriguing dark comedy.
The ensemble cast is incredibly talented, the script sounds fresh, and the theme is different -- even if it has Saif doing an Akshaye Khanna, ie - falling head over heels for Dimple.
Homi Adjania's directorial debut, Being Cyrus is slated to release on March 24.
Anupamaa
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