The sprightly seniors of Rustom Baug celebrated their Melavedo’19 on 23rd November, 2019, with great joy and festivity. Children from the prayer class inaugurated the function with young Navars – Cyrus Dastur and Yazd Kotwal leading the group. The children of the Kiddy’s Music Group, ably trained by Gulnar Tafti and Monaz Wadia, entertained the audience with…
11-year-old, Er. Cyrus Xerxes Dastur was ordained Navar on 20th May, 2016, at the Vatchagandhy Agiary on Hughes Road. Coming from a family of priests, Cyrus’ Navar ceremony was performed by Er. Asphandiar Dadachanji and Er. Khushroo Kanga. Speaking to Parsi Times, Cyrus – a student of Std. VI of Greenlawns High School said, “This…
Our community has been known to gift Bollywood some seriously talented and critically acclaimed artists and personalities including Boman Irani, Ronnie Screwvala, Nauheed Cyrusi, Shiamak Davar, Perizaad Zorabian and Amyra Dastur, to name a few. Two names to watch out for, that add to this booming clique of budding Parsis in Bollywood, are Cyrus Dastur,…
Cyrus Dastur, founder of the eminent SHAMIANA Short Film Club, is set to make his Bollywood debut as Producer, with his first Hindi flick, ‘Sweetie Desai Weds NRI’, releasing on 2nd June, 2017. Cyrus has co-produced this youthful musical comedy which will be released pan-India across 900 theatres next month! With songs by Atif Aslam,…
Asia’s largest short film club, ‘Shamiana’, founded and run by Cyrus Dastur, held a successful screening of numerous ‘Oscar Nominated Short films’ to a packed audience of over six hundred people at Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University (PDPU) in Ahmedabad on 19th November, 2016. Having a strong presence across multiple cities of India, Shamiana has now…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]A statistical data presented by Google states that the increase in the consumption of short films among the masses, is in tandem with the growth of ‘Shamiana’ – the leading short-film club in Asia. This week as ‘Shamiana’ celebrates its 8th anniversary, Parsi Times Special Correspondent, Delaveen Tarapore chats with its versatile founder,…