I have done injustice to myself before: Shruti Haasan

Shruti Haasan’s latest single Edge will release on social media and will be aired on television in a few hours’ time. Talking to us over the phone, she tells us that she has made this lockdown productive by doing things she likes. “I have gone out only when it was needed and when work required me to. Else, I have been home most of the time, working on my music. I write poems quite often and one fine morning, I woke up and started writing lines, about what I felt at that moment and made it into music. That is how Edge began. Then I shot it in my phone and worked with my team and we put it together as a single,” Shruti begins. Divulging more on Edge, she says, “I have been on the “edge” of a lot of things in a lot of situations. Having been on the edge, I was able to see people on the other side much closer. ‘Indha pakkam konjam, andha pakkam konjam adhan idhu’ (A little from my side and little from the other side that is what it is).”

 Despite having carved a niche for herself in the international music scene, in south India, Shruti has been recognised as an actor. She says that she doesn’t classify herself as an actor or a musician regardless of where she works. “I am more of a creative person than being called an actor or a musician. I write, I act, I sing and I compose. When I perform in London, I have had people asking me to perform for them the second time. That is what is overwhelming. Moreover, I have been doing this as Shruti Haasan, which is more liberating and this humbles me,” she adds. In the last 18 months, Shruti has opened up herself a lot more than she usually does. “Yes, I have and it is not something that happened to me overnight. It was a journey. I asked myself a lot questions and gave myself the time to think about what I have been through. If I asked myself whether Shruti has been harsh on herself? Yes, I have been. I have done injustice to myself in the past. If Shruti Haasan has a conversation with herself in the mirror or with her alter ego sitting in front of her, what she was and what she wants to be will be in complete contrast. And that is what you will see in Edge,” she concludes.