Anshuman Jha and wife Sierra Winters welcomed daughter Tara Jha Winters this March. It takes the actor a beat to comprehend that it’s going to be his first Father’s Day as a dad. “It’s a surreal feeling as I am myself like a child,” he quips, adding, “When I am with Tara, it feels that my heart is beating inside another body. I am enjoying changing her diapers and feeding her. I love kids and I prefer them and animals over human adults.”
The actor shares that he has a certain ideology of raising kids as he comes from a matriarchal family. “A mother carries a child inside for nine months, so fathers should do more when the child comes. It’s what my mother has taught me,” he says, adding that he is living a righteous life to set a “high benchmark” for Tara. “I don’t drink or smoke. I want to be the best example of what a man should be for Tara, so that when she sees red flags, she knows it’s not worth it. I don’t do anything in my life that normalises toxicity. Love should not be an excuse for toxicity,” he asserts.
The 39-year-old insists that not just a good father, but he is also ensuring to be a good husband. “The best thing I can do for my daughter is show how much I love her mother. Me and Sierra make sure that we don’t let our relationship slide. We keep having dates and our romantic moments,” he says.
Now that he is a father himself, Jha misses his own dad a bit more, who passed away in 2020. “Me and my father didn’t spend too much time together as he was mostly out for work. But I used to have the most open conversations with him about life. We had a mutual love for food, and I miss having meals with him the most,” he shares, revealing the soundest advice he received from him. “In one of our last conversations, he told me, ‘Marry a woman, only if you love and respect her mother because inherently, she will turn out like her mom’. A year later, I met Sierra, and I loved her mother so much,” he shares.
{{/usCountry}}Now that he is a father himself, Jha misses his own dad a bit more, who passed away in 2020. “Me and my father didn’t spend too much time together as he was mostly out for work. But I used to have the most open conversations with him about life. We had a mutual love for food, and I miss having meals with him the most,” he shares, revealing the soundest advice he received from him. “In one of our last conversations, he told me, ‘Marry a woman, only if you love and respect her mother because inherently, she will turn out like her mom’. A year later, I met Sierra, and I loved her mother so much,” he shares.
{{/usCountry}}Jha’s next film is Hari Ka Om, which has been chosen to be the closing night film at Indisches Film Festival in Stuttgart, Germany on July 21. The film tells a father-son story, emphasising the need to say ‘I Love You’ to each other in the relationship. “I, unfortunately, didn’t have such a relationship with my father, that’s why this film is special. In a patriarchal society, men don’t express their emotions to each other much. I wish my father was around because I want to say much more to him than I could. When you feel like expressing love, you should say it because you never know when is the last time you are speaking to a person,” he ends.