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Shruti Haasan is an Indian singer turned actress. Her parents are the noted actors, Kamal Haasan and Sarika.
Early career
Shruti Rajalakshmi Haasan was born to actors Kamal Haasan and Sarika on
January 28, 1986 in Chennai, India. She also has a younger sister named
Akshara, who represents India nationally for Ballroom Latin dancing.
Haasan studied at the Lady Andal in Chennai, until 10th grade, when 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.
Singing
Shruti Haasan sang 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. Shruti
Haasan's second song came in Hey Ram, where she sang 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.
Acting
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 father. 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.
Music composing
After much speculation, Shruti Haasan was confirmed as the music
composer for the upcoming Tamil film Unnaipol Oruvan, with lead role
played by her father Kamal Haasan who is also co-producer of the movie
under Rajkamal International. The bilingual, is a remake of the
successful Hindi film, A Wednesday!, but the soundtracks of both the
projects are entirely separate
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