ANSHUMAN JHA

ANSHUMAN JHA – Film Actor

Anshuman Jha – born in Allahabad, U.P, graduated with a degree in Economics from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai. He also has a diploma in Acting from Barry John's Imago School of Acting.

He began his theatre journey as a 13 year old by coming to Mumbai from Delhi for SummerTime Acting Workshops At Prithvi Theatre. Soon he made his debut as a professional stage actor in a host of children's plays such as "Jhagrapoor" at "Lalchi" at Prithvi Theatre as a 15 year old. Jha finished the Diploma Acting Course from Barry John's Academy as a 17 year old, the youngest ever to have passed out of the course then. 

He was then cast by Barry John (theatre director) in his play "Its All About Money Honey" in 2002. Jha shifted his base to Mumbai as an 18 year old and graduated from St. Xavier's College. During these three years he worked in a host of experimental and non-experimental plays with directors like Quasar Padamsee, Joy Fernandes and Jaimini Pathak. He was assisting Subhash Ghai for a period of three years during which he acted and directed plays such as Mr. Kolpert. His devised play Dirty Talk was directed by Nayantara Roy. It was India's representation at Contact-World Theatre Festival in 2010 at Manchester, UK. His most recent play is Ramu Ramanathan's classic "The Boy Who Stopped Smiling" where he plays the lead character. 

Anshuman Jha made his feature film debut as a lead actor in Ekta Kapoor and Dibakar Banerjee's Love Sex aur Dhokha. He has done a select high profile endorsements for Red Label and Pepsi. He also endorsed Tata Sky from 2011-12. He was seen in a series of adverts for the same "Poochne mein kya jaata hain" campaign.

His second release was Kismat Love Paisa Dilli (KLPD) in 2012 and though the film tanked, he was hailed as the most entertaining thing in the film as Nunna by Filmfare. He had one release in 2013 in Boyss Toh Boyss Hain, in which he played the protagonist of a Sardar alongside Raj Kumar & Manu Rishi. His performance was applauded in the critically acclaimed film Yeh Hai Bakrapur released on May 9th. He has FUGLY, Chauranga & X scheduled for a 2014 release.

His works include:

 Actor

Year	Film	Role	Other Notes	Director
2010	Love Sex aur Dhokha	Rahul	Lead actor	Dibakar Banerjee
2012	Kismat Love Paisa Dilli KLPD	Nunna	Second lead actor	Sanjay Khanduri
2013	Boyss Toh Boyss Hain	Karan Pal Singh	Lead actor	Amit Vats Chouhan
2014	Yeh Hai Bakrapur	Jaffar	Lead Actor	Janaki Vishwanathan
2014	Chauranga		Under production	Bikas Mishra
2014	X		Under production	Hemant Gaba,Raja Sen, Nalan Kumarasamy
2014	Fugly	Cheeni	Special Appearance	Kabir Sadanand

Direction

Year	Film	Notes	Director
2007	Black and White	Chief Assistant Director	Subhash Ghai
2008	Paying Guests	Chief Assistant Director	Paritosh Painter
2009	Peter Gaya Kaam Se	Associate Director	John Owen

Commercials

Year	Product	Director	Notes
2010	Brooke Bond Red Label	Shoojit Sircar	With Anupam Kher
2010	Chocolibe	Sanjay Shetty	Babloo
2011	Pepsi	Prasoon Pandey	With Kevin Pietersen
2011	Tata Sky	Vivek Kakkad	Tank Film
2011	Tata Sky	Vivek Kakkad	Bank Robbery Film
2011	Tata Sky	Vivek Kakkad	Watchdog Film
2011	KBC Teaser	Amit Kumar	Aam Aadmi with Amitabh Bachchan
2011	Anmol Veg Munchies	Bhavesh Kapadia	Corcoise Films
2011	I-CAN	Rajesh Sathi	Keroscene Films
2013	VICKS	Manoj Pillai	Chrome Pictures