Jugal Hansraj is a film actor, writer and National Award-winning filmdirector, originally from Mumbai, India. He began working in filmsfirst as a child actor - Masoom (1983) being the most notable. He thenwent on to become a lead actor in films like Papa Kahte Hain (1996) andMohabbattein (2000) among others. In 2006 he turned writer-directorand made the animation film Roadside Romeo (2008) and in 2010 hedirected the feature film Pyaar Impossible! He's still seen on screen asan actor at regular intervals. His first book as author, Cross Connection- The Big Circus Adventure, was published in 2017. The Coward & TheSword is his second novel. He is currently based in New York.