Cyrus Sahukar (born 6 August 1980) is an Indian actor, VJ, writer, host, comedian and an entrepreneur.
He has acted in several OTT and Bollywood films.
Cyrus Sahukar was born in the military headquarters of Mhow, Indore on August 6, 1980, to Colonel Behram Sahukar and writer Nimeran Sahukar.
His father is a Parsi while his mother is of Punjabi origin.
His paternal grandfather was a brigadier, Adi Sahukar, who served in the army alongside Sam 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 in Delhi where he did his schooling from St Columba's School, Delhi and he graduated from the Delhi College of Arts and Commerce of Delhi 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 with Mini Mathur and 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 of IPS 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 stories by Salman Rushdie that was a part of Barry John's Red Noses Club.
At 15, he performed a musical show called Thank you for the music, directed by Stephen Marazzi, which was his first professional endeavour as a singer.
He later started assisting Roshan Abbas.
At 16, Sahukar began his career in Delhi, hosting a radio show called Radio Rampage.
In the same year, he worked on the production and acted in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Starlight Express and Roshan Abbas's Graffiti Postcards from School.
Sahukar also started doing radio voice-overs and jingles under his direction.
His first jingle was for the brand Harpic.
Cyrus’ MTV journey began with winning MTV VJ Hunt alongside Mini Mathur and Asif Seth.
1999
He also hosted MTV Chill Out in 1999.
2000
In 2000, he was the face of a show titled MTV Fully Faltoo.
He also portrayed an assortment of bizarre personas in multiple other shows including Piddhu The Great, based on the Indian cricketer-commentator Navjot Singh Sidhu, and two seasons of Rendezvous with Semi Girebaal, which was his unusual take on the chat show Rendezvous with Simi Garewal.
Semi Girebaal, the parody, had higher TRP than the original show.
2003
Cyrus also hosted MTV Roadies season 1 in 2003.
2004
In 2004, Sahukar collaborated with his fellow VJ and funnyman Cyrus Broacha in a show called MTV123 which later became Cy vs Cy.
Cyrus Sahukar, Ayushmann Khurrana, and an ex-roadie contestant Shambhavi Sharma starred in MTV's Fully Faltoo Film Festival.
2006
He hosted the entrepreneurial reality show called Business Baazigar (2006) on ZeeTV.
2007
Sahukar played the part of Pareshaan Awasthi in Bechaare Zameen Par, an hour-long feature that was a parody of the Indian film Taare Zameen Par (2007).
2008
By 2008, he branched out from MTV to work with channels like POGO, Star TV, UTV, and Zee TV as a host on various game shows.
He also hosted 300 episodes of POGO channel's game show, Hole in the wall (2008) and POGO All-stars.
He worked with Bloomberg UTV India as an anchor of the business news channel's business reality show called The Assignment Season 1 (2008).
He also hosted The Pogo Amazing Kids awards in 2008.
2009
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 series Kick-Ass Morning (2009) among various other shows.
Sahukar went on to host HDFC SpellBee (2009) on the National Geographic channel.
In the same year, he hosted the world's largest wildlife quiz challenge Wild Wisdom Quiz (2009 and 2019).
2012
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-hosted India's Got Talent on Colors season 4 (2012) alongside Manish Paul.
2013
In the following year, Cyrus hosted about 90 episodes of Sab Khelo Sab Jeeto on Sony SAB (2013).
He was also the host of the online show The Bench (2013).
