Early Life: Cyrus Sahukar was born in Indore, Madhya Pradesh. His father, Colonel Behram Sahukar, is Parsi whereas his mother, Nimeran Sahukar, a writer, is a Punjabi. Cyrus did his schooling from St Columba`s school, Delhi. He began acting theatre in school and participated in various school plays from the age of 6. By the age of 14, he was a part of senior `Literacy Mission Program` where the school students would perform plays and educational skits for the inmates of Tihar Jail. During the same period, he acted in a play which was directed by Barry John, based on a novel by author Salman Rushdie. He later joined Roshan Abbas and started doing radio voice-overs and jingles. His first jingle was for Harpic. By the age of 16, he was hosting a radio show called `Radio Rampage` in Delhi. At the age of 18 he won in a nationwide search for MTV India called `MTV VJ Hunt`.

Career Highlights: He joined MTV at the end of 1999 and moved to Mumbai and became one of the youngest people working in MTV. The following year, in 2000, he hosted a show called `MTV Fully Faltoo`. Around the same time, he started performing two spoofs, Navjot Singh Sidhu as `Piddhu The Great` and also hosted Semi Girebaal,a spoof of Rendezvous with Semi Garewal., which recorded higher rating than the original show. When MTV forayed into the Mocumentary arena, he started anchoring the show `Kickass Mornings`, wherein he played 25 different characters. He then also hosted two seasons of the game show `Hole in the wall`, followed by `All stars`, both for Pogo Channel.