Cyrus Broacha, visitng Chennai, speaks about his comeback on MTV Bakra, his adventurous television stint and more:
When it comes to people with good sense of humour like Cyrus Broacha it is always a breezy sail through conversations and one wonders when they are serious at all! When I get to speak to Cyrus, he is busy playing with his son, Mikhaail.
So, what is a day in the life of Cyrus like? “Well! Working days are always depressive because I need to shave, and I wonder why is it that the hair only keeps growing. When I am not working, I drop my kids at school.
And out here at home, nobody seems to have any respect at all for my presence,” he chuckles.
Small screen is something that beckons this stand-up comedian and prankster, as he will be seen in MTV Bakra once again.
“Well, it’s MTV which decided to Bakra again and I do feel good about being part of it,” he says and when I ask him how does it feel when somebody plays a prank on him, he says, “I have no option but to smile.” Cyrus recently completed 200 episodes on CNN IBN for The Week That Wasn’t. He also had a stint at Khatron Ke Khiladi where he took a stand against bull-fighting. “I am not scared of bull fighting, I am against the cruelty of animals” he sounds quite serious there.
How was Priyanka Chopra, “Her accent is normal when she is not on camera but I don’t know what happens to the accent and intonations once she’s on camera,” he says, and laughs. But why not films? “It’s a great feeling doing cinema, but my small screen commitments keep me busy all through.
However, I am ready to even work as a spot boy in a Rajinikanth film,” he says.
Cyrus is known to have interviewed most celebrities in Bollywood, for that matter, even cricket. “I have interviewed everybody from Amitabh Bachchan to Shahrukh Khan. But have been trying to interview Rajinikanth down south. There’s something special about this Superstar — no PR, no promotions, has his strong spiritual inclinations, always in simple clothes, but has a great fan-following and does only one film a year and it’s a super hit.” Any interesting memories with interviews? “I had great fun interviewing Shoaib Akhthar — you know he has so many accents, Punjabi, Scottish, Hindi. I asked him if not a cricketer, what would have he become and he said, “I would have loved to teach English” and I could not help giggling in my mind.” So, anything on the cards? “I am supposed to complete in December, for which I should at least start in November (he chuckles).”
