Shruti Hassan on Elle Jan’2010

Shruti Hassan is 24 and one film old. Judge her by this and you’d be mistaken. The brown-eyed beauty lets her hair down for this month’s issue of Elle and gives us a peek into her world: her career in music, star parents and her insecurities about not fitting into Bollywood.

The daughter of legendary Tamil actor-director Kamal Hassan and actress Sarika, Shruti has a keen ear for music. Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd, Tamil music and RD Burman find place on her CD rack. On doing the music for her father’s remake of A Wednesday, the singer-songwriter-composer tells the mag, “After doing the music for a film, it kind of changes your perspective on your own music… I’ve found a new phase in my life, I’ve found a new sound, and now I’m setting up a new band.”