Anu Menon is an Indian film director and screenwriter. She has directed movies such as ''

London, Paris, New York ''London, Paris, New York'' also known by the initialism ''LPNY'', is 2012 Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy film written and directed by Anu Menon, with Ali Zafar and Aditi Rao Hydari in the lead roles. The official theatrical trailer wa ...

'' (2012), ''

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'' (2016) and worked with non-mainstream actors like

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and

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. Menon is a graduate of

London Film School London Film School (LFS) is a film school in London and is situated in a converted brewery in Covent Garden, London, neighbouring Soho, a hub of the UK film industry. It is the oldest film school in the UK.

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

. 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 Drishyam Films is an independent Indian film production company. It was founded by Manish Mundra in 2014, and saw its first success with the release of the award-winning film '' Ankhon Dekhi'' in 2014. Other acclaimed releases include '' Umrika ...

. 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 ''

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''. Anupama Menon (''nee'' Balakrishnan) is married and her husband is from Kerala they have a daughter called Rhea Menon.

Filmography

Television

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