REAL NAME | Shruti Rajalakshmi Haasan |
NICK NAME | |
DATE OF BIRTH | JANUARY 28 1982(AGE 22) |
FATHER/MOTHER | KAMAL HASSAN/SARIKA |
LANGUAGE | HINDI,ENGLISH,MALAYALAM |
HEIGHT | 5' 8" (1.73 m) |
FIRST MOVIE/DEBUT | LUCK (HINDI) WITH IMRAN KHAN |
YEARS IN FIELD | 2009- |
EDUCATION | PSYCHOLOGY, St ANDREWS COLLEGE |
MARITIAL STATUS | SINGLE |
CURRENT MOVIE | LUCK |
BIRTH PLACE | INDIA |
KNOWN FOR | SINGER,MODEL,ACTRESS |
SISTER | AKSHARA,YOUNGER |
Early career
Shruti Hassan is the daughter of legendary actor kamal Hassan and top actress Sarika.She was born oin 1982.She also has a younger sister named Akshara, who represents India nationally for Ballroom Latin dancing.Haasan studied at the Abacus School in Chennai, until 10th grade, where she moved to Mumbai to read psychology at St Andrew’s College.However, Haasan shifted her focus to cinema and music, and eventually travelled to the USA to continue to learn music at the Musicians Institute in California, before returning to Chennai.shruti Haasan sung her first song aged just six in her father's Thevar Magan in the composition of Ilaiyaraaja. Later while pursuing her studies in school, Haasan made her singing debut in the Hindi language film, Chachi 420, singing a duet performing for the voice of a child, with her father Kamal Haasan, who also directed the film.[6] Shruti Haasan's second song came in Hey Ram, where she sung the bilingual versions of the title theme, Rama Rama with her father, in Hindi and in Tamil. The album from Ilayaraaja, which was critically praised, won Haasan accolades for her efforts with reviewers, Screen India praising that she "has the makings of a good singer, and with some training she should go great guns". Shruti Haasan, has most recently sung in a Tamil film,for Gautham Menon's Vaaranam Aayiram under the composition of Harris Jayaraj. As of November 2008, Haasan is also midway through her untitled debut album, which she has composed, written and sung, and is set for release in mid-2009.
After pursuing a career in singing, Shruti Haasan branched out a career into modelling. She started by starring appearing in the Frappe! magazine version of September 2007, since then she has gone on to appear in Verve.
In 2000, Haasan made her cinematic debut in the Tamil and Hindi bilingual film, Hey Ram, directed by her dad. She made a cameo appearance as the daughter of Vallabhai Patel in the biopic of Mahatma Gandhi.
After rejecting prominent film offers, most notably the lead role in Venkat Prabhu's Saroja, reports suggested in late 2007 that Haasan was set to make her full debut as a heroine in 2008 with a movie opposite Madhavan directed by Nishikanth Kamath. Despite Madhavan admitting that the news "was premature", she signed up to the film, which was titled, Endrendrum Punnagai, only to be stalled prior to production.Eventually Haasan signed up to Soham Shah's Luck opposite Imran Khan, a Bollywood film.