‘South stars are humble, simple as compared to Bollywood’: Shruti Haasan says they have ‘higher level of awareness’

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She explained her observations further and credited a completely different art form for making her humble and aware. “I think it’s just a South Indian thing to do; you know, many people who have a lot of money won’t dress up very flashy. They will still have that old Ambassador car for many years. It’s just the psychology of the place, and it’s very important to realise that we are merely vessels for the art. We aren’t a conduit of any kind; the conduit is a good film, a good script or even a good song. We just receive that art, and we are supposed to spread it outwards. “Learning music very early in my life and working with people in close quarters for hours on end teaches you to just play your bits, to not try to surpass anyone else, and to be humble,” said Shruti.

Talking about her stint in Hindi film, Shruti admitted that she hasn’t been able to pinpoint exactly what went wrong and said, “I really don’t know why it didn’t work. I went to the places where, whatever I wanted from a film, I got. But somehow the focus shifted, because I have always had enquiries from Hindi, and sometimes I didn’t have the dates, or in some cases I made wrong decisions in films, which everybody suffers the price of. The Hindi film space is also very different now, and with OTT coming into play, I think I get offered a lot of things which I am more interested in, and I will do more of.”

Shruti has worked in Hindi films such as Ramaiya Vastavaiya (2013), Luck (2009) alongside Imran Khan and Sanjay Dutt, and Behen Hogi Teri (2017) with Rajkummar Rao.