Shruti Haasan on nepotism: Coin flips both ways

Shruti Haasan said that she feels the term Nepotism is quite invalid as the coin flips both ways- for star kids and the non-star ones.

Looks like Shruti Haasan has the apt and practical answer to one of the recent buzzwords of Bollywood- Nepotism.

Shruti Haasan’s Behen Hogi Teri released today.

Daughter of ace actors Kamal Haasan and Sarika, the 31-year-old star, during a candid interview with ANI, said that she feels the term Nepotism is quite invalid as the coin flips both ways- for star kids and the non-star ones.

Mumbai: Actors Vidyut Jammwal and Shruti Haasan during the screening of film Behen Hogi Teri in Mumbai, in Mumbai, on June 8, 2017. (Photo: IANS)

“I am very proud of being a Haasan, I am very proud of my parents and what they have given me and of course my doors have opened because of them. But I had to walk through some very difficult time of not being accepted for nine years and I did it all by my own and my parents will vouch for that. I don’t agree with the term nepotism because I believe there are people who don’t have famous parents but get a lot of support from certain people, which I never got. You know, the coin flips both ways,” she said.

Shruti, who will next be seen in her father’s directorial venture Sabaash Naidu, when asked who will she see Kamal Haasan as on sets- a father or a director, she promptly replied, “A director of course.”

“On set I look upto him (father Kamal Haasan) as a director because we are in a professional environment. I never bring the personal thing into that and he doesn’t either. It is all business.”