Anu Menon
Biography
Anu Menon is an Indian film director and screenwriter. She has directed movies such as London, Paris, New York (2012), and Waiting (2016) and worked with non-mainstream actors like Naseeruddin Shah, Suhasini Maniratnam, and Kalki Koechlin. Menon is a graduate of the London Film School.
Anu grew up in Delhi and studied at KV Andrews Ganj. She got her bachelor's in engineering at BITS Pilani and worked in advertising. She attended a workshop at NYFA and later enrolled in a filmmaking course at the London Film School.
Early in her career, she made short films Ravi Goes To School, and Baby, a documentary on a Bengali domestic help who wrote a bestseller. Her debut film was a romantic comedy London, Paris, New York (2012) starring Ali Zafar and Aditi Rao Hydari, The second movie Waiting (2016) featured Kalki Koechlin and Naseeruddin Shah, was produced by Ishka Films and Drishyam Films.
Menon was also part of a team of directors who worked on a collaborative project called X: Past Is Present in which she directed a segment called Oysters.
Anupama Menon (nee Balakrishnan) is married and her husband is from Kerala they have a daughter called Rhea Menon.
