Anu Menon

For Lola Kutty, see Anuradha Menon

Anu Menon
Alma mater	BITS, Pilani London Film School
Years active	2012–present

Anu Menon is an Indian film director and screenwriter. She has directed movies such as London, Paris, New York (2012), Waiting (2016) 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 (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.

Filmography

Short film

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Notes
2007	Ravi Goes to School	Yes	Yes
2015	Oysters	Yes	Yes	Segment of X: Past Is Present

Feature film

Year	Title	Director	Writer
2012	London, Paris, New York	Yes	Story
2016	Waiting	Yes	Yes
2020	Shakuntala Devi	Yes	Yes
2023	Neeyat	Yes	Yes

Television

Year	Title	Notes
2019	Four More Shots Please!	Season 1
2022	Killing Eve	2 episodes
2023	The Winter King	2 episodes
2024	The Day of the Jackal	2 episodes

External links

• Anu Menon at IMDb