In 2006, Kapadia co-starred with Saif Ali Khan and Naseeruddin Shah in the black comedy "Being Cyrus", an English-language independent feature and the directorial debut of Homi Adajania. Kapadia played Katy Sethna, Shah's neurotic and unfaithful wife who has an affair with Cyrus (Khan), a young drifter who enters their house as an assistant. The film was well-received at a number of film festivals before its theatrical release in India, upon which it was embraced by critics and audiences, making a considerable profit against its small budget. The BBC's Poonam Joshi stated, "the descent into despair of Dimple Kapadia's Katy is enthralling" but other critics, including Derek Elley from "Variety" and Shradha Sukumaran from "Mid Day", criticised her for excessively overacting. In the mystical love story "Banaras" (2006), Kapadia played a wealthy Brahmin woman whose daughter falls in love with a man of a lower caste.