Indian film Being Cyrus 'to show' at LA film fest

Indian director Homi Adajania says his latest movie, Being Cyrus is set to be shown at the Los Angeles festival in June.

Indian director Homi Adajania's latest movie,

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Being Cyrus

, is likely to be shown at the Los Angeles Film Festival in June. The English-language movie, billed as a psychological drama, has not yet been released in India.

Attempts to contact Adajania at his office Monday were not immediately successful.

Bollywood actors Saif Ali Khan, Naseeruddin Shah, Dimple Kapadia and Boman Irani feature in the movie, that already has been well received at film festivals in France, the United States and Israel.

The film is about a Parsi family of a retired sculptor, played by Shah, who open their home to a stranger, played by Khan. As the movie plays out, the audience discovers that all is not well with the family nor with the mysterious visitor.

Khan has starred in several Bollywood hits including Parineeta, or The Married Woman, and Salaam Namaste, or Hello, Hello.