Coolie actress Shruti Haasan would pretend to be someone else so she wouldn’t be asked about Kamal Haasan; says, “I wanted my own identity” : Bollywood News

Although Shruti Haasan followed her father Kamal Haasan’s footsteps as she aspired to become an actor, she went on to confess that she went to lengths to make sure her own name and fame. While talking to Madan Gowri, she admitted there was a time when she wanted nothing more than to carve out her own identity. So much so that she would even pretend to be someone else.

Coolie actress Shruti Haasan would pretend to be someone else so she wouldn’t be asked about Kamal Haasan; says, “I wanted my own identity”

Shruti said in the interview that while she’s ‘very proud’ of being a daughter of two actors – veteran star Sarika and Tamil superstar Kamal Haasan, it irked her when she was young and people asked her about her father. “People would constantly ask me about him, it was like all the time. I would feel like, I am Shruti, I want my own identity. People would point at me and say, ‘Hey, that’s Kamal’s daughter’. If anyone asked me, I would say, ‘No, my father is Dr Ramachandran’, it was our dentist’s name. ‘And I am Pooja Ramachandran’, a name I made up.”

She also said that she knew her father was unlike anyone she had met and that being in Chennai made it difficult for her to escape his fame. “It’s not just that my dad is an actor or a famous person. I knew from childhood that he was different from anyone I met. I was brought up by two stubborn people and that rubbed off on me and my sister. I moved to Bombay when they separated. I never enjoyed being Shruti in Chennai. It’s difficult to separate from his fame when there are appa’s posters all over the place. Today, I don’t even want to imagine Shruti without Kamal Haasan.”

On work front, Shruti Haasan made her acting debut in 2009 with the Hindi film Luck. She was last seen in Prashanth Neel’s Salaar Part 1 - Ceasefire. While she is currently gearing up for the release of Lokesh Kanagaraj’s Coolie starring Rajnikanth, the actress is also expected to start work on Prabhas, Prithviraj Sukumaran starrer Salaar Part 2 aka Salaar: Shouryaanga Parvam.

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