Anshuman Jha and wife Sierra Winters became parents to baby girl Tara Jha Winters this March. And the actor is excited about his first Father’s Day. He says, “It’s a surreal feeling! 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’m like a child myself; for me, it’s kids and animals over adult humans, any day.”

Hailing from a matriarchal family has influenced his ideology when it comes to raising children, Jha shares, reasoning, “A mother carries a child inside her for nine months, so I feel fathers must play a bigger role when a child arrives in the world. This is what my mother has taught me.”

Jha admits he’s on a righteous path in order to set a “high benchmark” for his daughter, 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 in someone, she will know that is not worth paying heed to,” he shares.

The 39-year-old insists that he’s not just striving to be a good father, but also a good husband. “The best thing I can do for my daughter is show how much I love her mother. Sierra and I make sure that we don’t let our relationship slide. We keep going on dates and have our romantic moments,” he exclaims.

Being a father also makes Jha miss his own dad, who passed away in 2020. He reveals, “My father and I didn’t spend much time together as he was mostly out for work, but I still had the most open conversations with him about life. We also had a mutual love for food, and I miss sharing meals with him the most.”

Jha’s next film Hari Ka Om, tells a father-son story, emphasizing on the need to say ‘I Love You’ in that relationship. It will be screened at Indisches Film Festival in Stuttgart, Germany. Jha rues, “Unfortunately, I didn’t have such a relationship with my father and 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 was able to.”