She was six years old when she started singing professionally and barely 12 when she made her Hindi singing debut with her father Kamal Haasan's film Chachi 420, a remake of the Hollywood comedy Mrs Doubtfire. After 20 years in the industry and having grown up in the shadow of a father acknowledged as one of India's most versatile actors, Shruti Haasan says she does not let her dad plan her career.
But she was thrilled when he loved her performance as 'Janani' in the Tamil film '3' opposite actor Dhanush.
She is yet to deliver a substantial hit and considers herself only just three-film old but when I remind her that it has been almost 20 years since she sang her first song, she pauses for a second, laughs and says under her breath "wow...it hits you, doesn't it?"
The film '3' may have failed to make money at the box office but Shruti says the intensely complex role of 'Janani', Ram's (Dhanush) childhood love and companion has been a huge challenge.
"Janani is a very urban story in that sense. Janani is nothing like me, she could be like a lot of us but she is nothing like me in her socio economic background (among other things). There is nostalgia and we have all been in that phase in our lives. Janani was very, very challenging for me, if you didn't really feel it (the role), you don't move people. You have to give a little bit of yourself and I gave a little bit more than a little bit to Janani. As a character she took a big chunk of Shruti," she says. So she was understandably pleased when her father approved of her acting in '3'.
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