Anu Menon


Anu Menon is an Indian film director and screenwriter. She has directed movies such as London, Paris, New York, Waiting and worked with non-mainstream actors like Suhasini Maniratnam and Kalki Koechlin. Menon is a graduate of London Film School.

Biography

Anu grew up in Delhi, studied in 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 for a filmmaking course at 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 starring Ali Zafar and Aditi Rao Hydari, The second movie Waiting 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 is married and her husband is from Kerala they have a daughter called Rhea Menon.

Filmography

Short film
YearTitleDirectorWriterNotes
2007Ravi Goes to School
2015OystersSegment of X: Past Is Present

Feature film
YearTitleDirectorWriter
2012London, Paris, New York
2016Waiting
2020Shakuntala Devi
2023Neeyat

Television
YearTitleNotes
2019Four More Shots Please!Season 1
2022Killing Eve2 episodes
2023The Winter King2 episodes
2024The Day of the Jackal2 episodes