From Actor to Auteur

LOVE SEX AUR DHOKHA AND CHAURANGA ACTOR ANSHUMAN JHA MAKES HIS DIRECTORIAL DEBUT WITH LORD CURZON KI HAVELI

- Karishma Upadhyay

WHILE TINKERING WITH THE THIRD DRAFT OF LORD CURZON KI HAVELI (2025), actor and producer Anshuman Jha started to think aloud about who'd be perfect for each role, the kind of lens to shoot with, and even the film's music.

That's when screenwriter Bikas Ranjan Mishra suggested that Jha direct the film himself. "I took a week to decide... what tipped the scales was my conviction about the script," he says. Starring Rasika Dugal, Arjun Mathur and Paresh Pahuja, the dark thriller is a chamber drama that revolves around two unlikely South Asian couples who meet at a countryside manor in England.