We catch Shruti Haasan on a call a day after she wrapped up her music commitments in London, and en-route to a small town in Chennai, where she is set to film Vijay Sethupathi-starrer Laabam. Even as the world is on a hiatus owing to the Coronavirus pandemic, Haasan has been shuffling between countries, living the most "dichotomous" life that an artiste can. The multiple hats that she dons as singer, lyricist and actor, implies Haasan, more often than not, always has a project in hand.

Apart from performing across venues in London, the singer-actor enjoys her time spent with musicians in the city's studios, "working on, and developing new sounds". A recent act brought her alongside Anoushka Shankar after a common friend roped them in for it. "My songs are personal. In different situations, we [become] different individuals. With music, I am my true self. The genres that I perform fall under alternative [music]. There are a few inflections of Indian [music], like in an alaap. In one song, I also have a Tamil verse. But, predominantly, my set is in English."