Sruthi Hariharan

Sruthi Hariharan

Sruthi Hariharan performing at the 61st Filmfare Awards South
Born Shruthi Hariharan
Chennai
Other names Shruthi, Shruti
Occupation Actress, model, singer
Years active 2012–present

Sruthi Hariharan is an Indian film actress who predominantly appears in Kannada films. After doing theatre and working as a background dancer in films, she began a career in acting. She debuted in the 2012 Malayalam film Cinema Company and got noticed after working in the Kannada film Lucia and Godhi Banna Sadharana Mykattu.

Early life

Sruthi Hariharan is a Tamil Iyer born in a Tamil family, hailing from Tamil Nadu,[1] who was raised in Bangalore, Karnataka.She did her schooling from Sishu Griha Montessori and high school. She graduated with a BBM degree from Christ University. She is trained in Bharatanatyam and contemporary dance and she is fluent in Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam and Hindi and can understand Telugu.[2]

She was interested in cultural activities and was a part of the cultural team at Christ College and later went on to do theatre.[3] After college, she wanted to take up dance as her profession but her family, particularly her father, was against it. She joined choreographer Imraan Sardariya's dance troupe and worked in the Kannada film industry as assistant choreographer and background dancer.[3] She was a background dancer in the industry for three years and featured in a number of songs.[4] Although she was "fascinated" by the film industry she did not intend to become an actor. However, she stated that she "knew it would be wonderful to be in front of the camera" and therefore started being a part of short films and documentaries and a few independent films.[3] She then got the opportunity to audition for a role in the Malayalam film Cinema Company.

Career

Shruti's film career was supposed to start off with a Tamil film but it got shelved [5] and Cinema Company marked her feature film debut. She had shot for two more Malayalam films, Thekku Thekkoru Desathu and Call Me @.[6] In Francis's Call Me @ she played the role of a "bubbly IT girl", while in Nandu's, Thekku Thekkoru Desathu she played a journalist.[7] She landed the lead role in the Kannada film Lucia by Pawan Kumar although she thought that her audition for the film went "horribly".[2] She played two characters in the film — one of a lower middle-class girl and the other of a film actress —[8] and dubbed for herself for the first time.[9] The second character was more glamorous that required her to "look hot" and lose weight and the actress stated that Glamour was "difficult for me".[2][8] Lucia was critically acclaimed and was later remade in several Indian languages.[10] Shruti's performance was well received and she was featured in Rediff's "Most Impressive Kannada Movie Debuts, 2013" list.[11] Later that year she appeared in another Kannada film Dyavre. The film, inspired by real life incidents of prisoners who escaped from a jail, saw Shruti playing the role a pregnant woman [6] who works in a garment factory.[5] The film also received rave reviews from critics.[12] She was offered a role in director Harsha's Bhajarangi too, but she could not commit herself to the film.[13]

In 2014, she was seen as the love interest of Kitty's character in Jacob Varghese's road movie Savaari 2. She accepted the role although she knew that she would appear in only a few scenes, shooting for 10 days for the film. She played a "rich spoilt brat" in the film and stated that she had to be "very girlie", which she said caused her difficulties as she considered herself "quite a tomboy".[14] Her next release was her first Tamil film Nerungi Vaa Muthamidathe by Lakshmy Ramakrishnan.[15][16] She was next seen in A. P. Arjun's Raate, which she signed even before the release of Lucia.[9] Her character in the film was that of a traditional village girl [6] and she was chosen among several girls who auditioned for the role as she could speak Kannada, with the director further stating that "her eyes and smile" caught his attention.[13]

She is simultaneously shooting for the Kannada film Sipaayi directed by Rajath Mayee,[17] and the Tamil independent art film Nila. She has also signed another Kannada film, Godhi Banna Sadharna Mykattu by Hemanth Rao,[18] and Balaji Sakthivel's next directorial Ra Ra Rajasekhar.[19]

Filmography

Key
Films that have not yet been released Denotes films that have not yet been released
Year Film Role Language Notes
2011 A Booty Artwork Shruti English
2012 Cinema Company Parvathi Malayalam
2012 Call me @ Malayalam
2013 Thekku Thekkoru Deshathu Malayalam
2013 Lucia Shwetha Kannada Nominated, SIIMA Award for Best Female Debutant
2013 Dyavre Kannada
2014 Savaari 2 Seenu’s wife Kannada
2014 Nerungi Vaa Muthamidathe Maga Tamil
2015 Rhaatee Rani Kannada
2015 Plus Herself Kannada Special appearance in song "Sunday Banthu"
2015 ABC Sruthi Hindi Short Film
2016 Jai Maruthi 800 Geetha Kannada
2016 Godhi Banna Sadharana Mykattu Dr. Sahana Kannada Won - Filmfare Award for Best Actress in a leading role-Female (Critics)

Nominated- SIIMA Award for Best Actress-Kannadas

2016 Sipaayi Divya Kannada
2016 Madha Mathu Manasi Manasi Kannada
2017 Beautiful Manasugalu Nandini Kannada Karnataka State Film Award for Best Actress
2017 Nila Tamil Straight-to-DVD release
2017 Urvi Kannada
2017 Happy New Year Charvi Kannada Special appearance
2017 Nibunan Shilpa Tamil Bilingual film
Vismaya Kannada
2017 Ra Ra Rajasekhar Film has yet to be released Tamil Filming
2017 Upendra Matte Baa Film has yet to be released Kannada Filming
2017 The VillainFilm has yet to be released Kannada Filming
2017 TarakFilm has yet to be released Kannada Filming
2017 Humble Politician NograjFilm has yet to be released Kannada Filming
2017 Solo Film has yet to be released Rukku Malayalam Filming

References

  1. ↑ http://www.newindianexpress.com/entertainment/tamil/I-Dont-Want-To-Be-a-Glam-Doll/2014/10/14/article2476389.ece
  2. 1 2 3 "Dancing with the cine stars | Deccan Chronicle". Archives.deccanchronicle.com. 2013-05-25. Retrieved 2014-06-17.
  3. 1 2 3 "'I had to lose weight and look glamorous for Lucia'". Rediff. 2013-08-27. Retrieved 2014-06-17.
  4. ↑ "Shruthi Hariharan was a background dancer ". The Times of India. 2013-05-10. Retrieved 2014-06-17.
  5. 1 2 A Sharadhaa. "Shruthi Hariharan is on a roll". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 2014-06-17.
  6. 1 2 3 "My passion for acting grew with time". deccanherald.com. Retrieved 2014-06-17.
  7. ↑ "Sruthi gets busy ". The Times of India. 2012-11-12. Retrieved 2014-06-17.
  8. 1 2 "'I had to lose weight and look glamorous for Lucia'". Rediff. 2013-08-27. Retrieved 2014-06-17.
  9. 1 2 A Sharadhaa. "Shruti Hariharan finds place in Arjun’s film Raate". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 2014-06-17.
  10. ↑ "Fox Star India to make Kannada film Lucia in Hindi — Indian Express". Archive.indianexpress.com. 2013-12-06. Retrieved 2014-06-17.
  11. ↑ "The Most Impressive Kannada Movie Debuts, 2013". Rediff. 2014-01-06. Retrieved 2014-06-17.
  12. ↑ IST (2013-12-10). "Yograj Bhat’s Dyaavre gets Rave Reviews from Film Ciritics". Ibtimes.co.in. Retrieved 2014-06-17.
  13. 1 2 "Shruti Hariharan joins Raate ". The Times of India. 2013-04-05. Retrieved 2014-06-17.
  14. ↑ "Shruti Hariharan insists she isn't onscreen arm candy ". The Times of India. 2014-05-12. Retrieved 2014-06-17.
  15. ↑ "Lucia girl makes Kollywood debut ". The Times of India. 2014-02-07. Retrieved 2014-06-17.
  16. ↑ "Lakshmi Ramakrishnan starts her second film!". Sify. 2014-03-20. Retrieved 2014-06-17.
  17. ↑ A Sharadhaa. "'Savari 2 has Good Humour'". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 2014-06-17.
  18. ↑ http://www.newindianexpress.com/entertainment/kannada/Missing-Man-Subject-of-Sruthis-Film/2014/10/28/article2495949.ece
  19. ↑ http://www.rediff.com/movies/interview/i-would-like-to-do-more-meaningful-cinema-south/20150317.htm
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