Siddharth Anand Kumar

Siddharth’s story kicks off in New Delhi, where he pretty much grew up living and breathing theater—jumping into all sorts of English plays with TAG, that local group every drama nerd knows. Honestly, it’s no surprise he ditched the regular path and got obsessed with filmmaking. Storytelling? Yeah, that’s his thing. He packed up and headed all the way to Hampshire College in Massachusetts to properly study the craft. Wild move, right? But it paid off. First real gig? Assistant director for Mira Nair on Kamasutra back in ’95. Here’s the funny bit: a scheduling mess meant he ended up in front of the camera, not just behind it, playing Prem. Total curveball. When he got back to India, he dove into cinematography—think documentaries, TV serials, the whole nine yards. If you ever caught “Rajdhani” on Star TV in 2000, that was him behind the lens. But he didn’t stop there. He basically helped put digital film festivals on the map in India, curating the first-ever Digital Talkies Festival in 2001. Then he went all in and wrote and directed “Let’s Enjoy” in 2004. Now he calls Mumbai home—because, of course, that’s where Bollywood lives. He’s all about exploring new ways to tell stories, always switching gears between roles but never losing that itch for creativity. The dude’s journey? Kinda inspiring, if you ask me.