The Bakra man is famous not only for putting his foot in his mouth, but also for putting it in theatre, veejaying, modelling, compering, hosting, and producing. This former MTV VJ made his debut at 14 in a desi version of Neil Simon's Brighton Memoirs. He came into limelight during St Xavier's Malhar festival. After he graduated, Cyrus went to the Lee Strasberg Acting Studio in New York where he studied acting for theatre. After returning to India, he acted in commercials, television serials and plays. His candid-camera show MTV Bakra catapulted him into every drawing room in India.
Now he hosts the programme The Week That Wasn't on CNN-IBN, besides dabbling in a whole bunch of other stuff, including theatre.
But there is also a serious side to him. For a very long time now, he has fought a personal battle against the killing of stray dogs in Mumbai. He holds awareness campaigns to ask people to adopt the dogs, donate money to help sterilise and vaccinate them, and to protect the dogs against municipality’s favoured way of killing them—painful electrocution.
Rozita Rajput is his choreographer partner.
