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Shruti Haasan Redefines Home: "I Am My Home" in Heartfelt Reflection

Shruti Haasan redefines the concept of home, stating it is not a pin on a map but a deeply personal space she carries within herself. She explains that while cities like Chennai, Mumbai, and Hyderabad offer her different kinds of love and ease, her true comfort comes from her ability to adapt and find joy anywhere. The actress and musician emphasizes that feeling at home is superior to any physical location, providing her with a great sense of security. Ultimately, she concludes that true belonging is about feeling at ease within oneself, not about a specific address.

Key Points: Shruti Haasan on Home: "It's Never Been Geography"

  • Home is not a geographical location
  • Finds comfort and love in multiple cities
  • True belonging comes from within
  • Personal concept provides safety and security
  • Career spans multiple film industries
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Shruti Haasan: I am my home

Actress Shruti Haasan shares her profound personal philosophy, revealing that true home is not a place but a feeling of safety and security within herself.

"Home is really where I am. - Shruti Haasan"

Chennai, Feb 23

Actress, singer and musician Shruti Haasan, who has lived and worked across industries and languages, says that she has come to see the idea of home very differently.

For her, home is not a pin on the map. It is a deeply personal space she carries within herself.

Reflecting on what belonging means to her, Shruti shares, "Home is not geography at all for me, is what I've realized. When I go back to Chennai I feel an ease and I feel a love that is so infinite. In Mumbai, I feel a different kind of love. In Hyderabad, because I work in these industries, I feel a different kind of love."

Having built a career that spans multiple film industries, she says each city has offered her its own warmth. But over time, she has discovered something more profound.

"What I've realized is you could probably throw me in the middle of anywhere and if I have to find my comfort, I will. That's my joy in life, it's getting to know people and a place and its culture and finding the thing that I love about it and making it then mine. Home is really where I am," she says.

"It's something that's deeply personal and I could be in what is so-called the most comfortable place, including my physical home, and I could be completely discombobulated because I don't feel at home with myself. So that concept of myself, is superior in my brain of that, I am my home and that has given me a great sense of safety and security in navigating anything in life," she adds.

Shruti goes on to point out, "To me, home has never been geography. It's never been a person, maybe apart from my dad, who really feels like the physical embodiment of home to me. Nothing's really been more home than me for myself, that might sound a bit self-centered, but it's worked out really well for me."

In a life that constantly takes her across cities, languages and cultures, Shruti Haasan's idea of home feels deeply personal and quietly powerful, a reminder that true belonging is not about an address on a map, but about feeling at ease within yourself.

- IANS

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Rohit P
It's easy to say this when you have the privilege of multiple homes and a famous father. For most of us, home is still the one place we can afford to live in. A bit disconnected from reality, no?
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Arjun K
Love how she represents the modern Indian experience. We are no longer tied to just one place. Chennai, Mumbai, Hyderabad – each city gives you a different flavour of life. She gets it.
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Sarah B
"I am my home" – what a powerful statement. It speaks to a sense of self that isn't dependent on external validation or location. Truly inspiring for anyone feeling lost or displaced.
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Vikram M
The part about her dad being the physical embodiment of home hit me right in the feels. That's so true for so many of us in India, no matter how independent we become. Family is the anchor.
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Kavya N
As a woman constantly traveling for work, this resonates deeply. The world can feel unsafe, but building that internal home, that core of safety, is everything. She articulated it so well.

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