Cyrus Sahukar

Cyrus Sahukar(born 6 August 1980) is an Indian actor,VJ, writer,host, comedian and an entrepreneur.He has acted in several OTT andBollywoodfilms.
Cyrus Sahukar was born in the military headquarters ofMhow,Indoreon August 6, 1980, to Colonel Behram Sahukar and writer Nimeran Sahukar. His father is aParsiwhile his mother is ofPunjabiorigin. His paternal grandfather was a brigadier, Adi Sahukar, who served in the army alongsideSam Manekshaw.His parents separated at the age of 4 and he went on to live with his grandmother in Delhi.
Cyrus has an elder sister, Preeti Philip, who is an artist.He spent his childhood inDelhiwhere he did his schooling fromSt Columba's School, Delhiand he graduated from theDelhi College of Arts and CommerceofDelhi University.By the age of 14, he dabbled in music and was a lead singer of his band in School. After he turned 18, he won the MTV Vj hunt along withMini Mathurand Asif Seth and moved to Mumbai.
Cyrus Sahukar started performing in theater and acted in school plays from the age of 6.By the age of 14, he was a part ofIPS Kiran Bedi's Literacy Mission Program, in which the students performed plays and skits for the inmates of Tihar Jail.During the same period, he acted in a play-Haroun and the sea of storiesby Salman Rushdie that was a part ofBarry John'sRed Noses Club.At 15, he performed a musical show calledThank youfor the music, directed by Stephen Marazzi, which was his first professional endeavour as a singer.He later started assistingRoshan Abbas.
At 16, Sahukar began his career inDelhi, hosting a radio show called Radio Rampage. In the same year, he worked on the production and acted in Andrew Lloyd Webber'sStarlight Expressand Roshan Abbas'sGraffiti Postcardsfrom School. Sahukar also started doing radio voice-overs and jingles under his direction. His first jingle was for the brandHarpic.
Cyrus’ MTV journey began with winningMTV VJ HuntalongsideMini Mathurand Asif Seth. He also hostedMTV Chill Outin 1999.In 2000, he was the face of a show titledMTV Fully Faltoo.He also portrayed an assortment of bizarre personas in multiple other shows includingPiddhu The Great,based on the Indian cricketer-commentatorNavjot Singh Sidhu, and two seasons ofRendezvous with Semi Girebaal, which was his unusual take on the chat showRendezvous with Simi Garewal.Semi Girebaal, the parody, had higher TRP than the original show.Cyrus also hostedMTV Roadiesseason 1 in 2003.
In 2004, Sahukar collaborated with his fellow VJ and funnyman Cyrus Broacha in a show calledMTV123which later becameCy vs Cy.Cyrus Sahukar,Ayushmann Khurrana, and an ex-roadie contestant Shambhavi Sharma starred in MTV'sFully Faltoo Film Festival.
Sahukar played the part ofPareshaan AwasthiinBechaare Zameen Par, an hour-long feature that was a parody of the Indian filmTaare Zameen Par(2007).Sahukar then went on to play 25 characters ranging from engineer Bobby Chadda to Paromita an NGO worker, Mr. Banerjee, Cyrus Macchiwala, Rapper AJ, in the mockumentary seriesKick-Ass Morning(2009) among various other shows.
By 2008, he branched out from MTV to work with channels likePOGO, Star TV,UTV, andZee TVas a host on various game shows.He hosted the entrepreneurial reality show calledBusiness Baazigar(2006) on ZeeTV.He also hosted 300 episodes of POGO channel's game show,Hole in the wall(2008) and POGO All-stars.He worked withBloomberg UTVIndia as an anchor of the business news channel's business reality show calledThe Assignment Season 1(2008).He also hostedThe Pogo Amazing Kidsawards in 2008.
Sahukar went on to hostHDFC SpellBee(2009) on theNational Geographic channel.In the same year, he hosted the world's largest wildlife quiz challengeWild Wisdom Quiz(2009 and 2019).He also hosted another quiz show on Nat Geo, the national Olympiad,Teenovators Season 1(2012) developed in association with Manipal University.
In 2012, he co-hostedIndia's Got Talenton Colors season 4 (2012) alongsideManish Paul.In the following year, Cyrus hosted about 90 episodes ofSab Khelo Sab JeetoonSony SAB(2013).He was also the host of the online showThe Bench(2013).
Sahukar was seen playing puppeteer and host on the television comedy show,Challenge Accepted(2016), which premiered onComedy Central.He was seen on several travel shows across International channels likeFox LifeandDiscovery.He also hosted Season 2 of the travel showGreat Escapewith Kunal and Cyrus onFOX LIFEwith actorKunal Kapoorin 2017.
Sahukar was seen back on MTV co-hostingElovator Pitch(2018), a speed-dating show set in an elevator produced by BBC Studios withGaelyn Mendonca.He co-hostedThe Antisocial Network(2019) with fellow prankster and MTV VJJose Covacoin the proceeding year.Sahukar also appeared as a judge on the MTV competitive modeling show,Forbidden Angels(2021) alongside model and actressMugdha Godse.
In 2020, he hosted his talk showAtrangi Fireside Chat with Cyrus, on the OTT screening platform,Zee5.In 2020, Sahukar explored his culinary passions in a new cooking show, titledThe Missing Apron, on TLC India.He co-hosted theDiscovery PlusshowFeelin Alive seasons 1 and 2(2021–2022) with actor,Amol Parashar.He also hosted Season 2 of the travel showThe Great Escapeon FOX LIFE with actor Kunal Kapoor in 2017.He also hosted the Cadbury 5 StarOne Tip One Handshow on DisneyPlus Hotstar.
For the past 5 years, Cyrus has been hosting the BYJU's School Super league among other shows.
In the early 2000s, Sahukar dabbed into acting inBollywoodmovies.His first feature film was the Anupam Kher directorial,Om Jai Jagdish(2002).Later in 2006, Sahukar bagged the role of Rahul in the filmRang de Basanti(2006), an Indian drama film written, produced, and directed by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra.He featured in a Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra directorial again in 2009 in Delhi 6.In the following year, he played the role of Randhir Gambir, a wealthy West Delhi boy, in the Sonam Kapoor & Abhay Deol starrerAisha(2010).A year later, Sahukar starred inThe House Guest(2011).In the same year, he starred in the Sahil Sangha directorateLove Breakups Zindagi(2011), a multistarrer romantic Hindi movie.
In 2014, Sahukar had a cameo in Sonam Kapoor's comedy drama film Khubsoorat where he played the role of Nausher Bandookwala.He also performed in an International film which was the first of four installments in the Heartbeat of the World anthology film series,Words with Goddirected by Mira Nair in 2014.Cyrus also played a role in Screenpanti's first original series-Office vs Office.Following this, he starred oppositeMini Mathurin the Amazon prime seriesMind the Malhotras(2019) which went on to have a second season (2022).
In 2019, Sahukar was also seen in his first OTT movieKadakh(2019) that premiered on Sony Liv.He also co-wroteKadakh.In the following year, Sahukar was seen in a cameo performance inMaska(2020) onNetflix.He continued his collaboration with Sony Liv as he starred in the comedy drama series,Potluck season 1 and 2(2020–2021).
In 2020, Sahukar acted in a show for Emmay Entertainment calledKaun Banegi ShekharvatialongsideLara Dutta,Naseeruddin Shah&Soha Ali Khanwhich was directed by Gaurav Chawla.Sahukar also hosted season 2 ofThe Lost Essenceof India which captures the imagination and creates awareness about unexplored locations of India like the rugged valleys and mountains.
Cyrus has hosted over 3000 live events.His first awards show was as a VJ for MTV India's event,Lycra MTV style awards(2007).Sahukar has been invited to host the launch of various luxury brands in India which includeAdidas,Ericsson,Samsung,Puma, and others.He began his collaboration withTata Motorsin 2015. He was also the host of the Huawei P9 launch event (2016).His next hosting for Tata Motors was alongside the world-renowned footballer,Lionel Messi, for the launch of Tata Tiago. He was also a part of Tata Motors’ Auto Expo (2016 and 2018), the largest automotive show in Asia.He also ran theTIGI Presents Femina Salon & Spa Hair Heroes(2016) awards as a host.He also played master of ceremonies as the host of theEconomic Times Brand Equity and Business Leaders awardsfor 4 years.
In 2019, Sahukar hosted the prestigiousTeacher's Golden Thistle Awardsthat was created through partnership with Republic TV.He is also the official host for BBCTop Gear Awards,Good Housekeeping Magazine Awards,Vogue Women of the Year Awards.
Sahukar hosted  theGQ Men of the year Awards,Lonely Planet AwardsandHindustan Times Style Awards two yearsin   a row in 2019.He also hosted TheSHRM India HR Excellence Awards(2019 and 2020) that was part of Asia's largest conference, SHRM India's Annual Conference and Expo, aired on CNBC and CNN. Sahukar had a two-year contract withGoogleandYouTubeto host some of their biggest events in India likeWizcraft AO presents Google Holiday Party(2020) and Google'sVirtual Corporate Event(2020).
In concept events Sahukar has worked extensively with Diageo including being the official host for three years for the seriesSignature Masterclass.He hosted the segmentPassion to Paycheckby Signature Masterclass featuring famous guests likeShah Rukh Khan,Kangana RanautandVijay Devarakondawho shared their inspirational journey to success.
In 2015, Sahukar teamed up with Bollywood actorsKalki Koechlin,Richa ChaddaandPurab Kohlifor a rib tickling play calledTrivial Disastersdirected by Atul Kuman and written by Ajay Krishnan.He was also a part of the digital revolution in Theatre as he played one of the seven clowns in Rajat Kapoor's creative rendition,I Don't Like It As You Like Itof the Shakespeare's classicAs You Like It.
Along with his friend Samir Kochar, Cyrus started off his new venture,Kulcha Bros, a restaurant, in 2022.
Sahukar tied the knot in 2022, with his long-term partner Vaishali Malahara, at Alibaug.