Shruti Haasan has never been one to filter her thoughts, and her
latest appearance on Neha Dhupia and Angad Bedi’s show Double Date was
no exception. Getting refreshingly honest about her dynamic with her
father, cinema legend Kamal Haasan, the actor and singer admitted she
stopped looking for his approval a long time ago. Instead, she
embraced fierce independence the moment she walked out of her family
home to build a career on her own terms.
When the topic of parental praise came up, Shruti kept things
wonderfully relatable. “I don’t look for validation from anyone. Not
from my dad, wo toh dete hi nahi. My dad is a regular Indian guy. He
is the one who, if I get 99, will ask why I didn’t get that one mark!
He is not some ordinary overachiever. I think he is genuinely
unimpressed by me”, she confessed.
Naturally, host Neha Dhupia dug a little deeper, probing whether Kamal
Haasan’s reaction stemmed from having seen it all in life or if it was
specific to his daughter. Caught off guard in the best way, Shruti
laughed and playfully labelled Neha an “Evil Therapist,” instantly
lightening the room.
Beneath the banter, though, lies a serious streak of self-reliance.
Shruti revealed she has refused financial handouts from her father
ever since moving out to chase her dreams, though she remains deeply
grateful for the one safety net he did provide.
“I am very thankful that the last thing my dad paid for was my music
education in America because that was something I could not afford at
the age of 19. He also said, ‘Education, yes. If you want to study
till 50 years, I will pay. Everything else is your problem because
it’s your life. If you live out of my house, then you pay the bill and
you live your life.’ And literally, the day I stepped out, I didn’t
look back”, she recalled.
Juggling thriving careers across Indian cinema and independent music,
Shruti has clearly turned that tough love into her biggest superpower.
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