My mum wanted us to have our own identity and we went to school in a bus and learnt through tactile practical application. I went to a utopian montessori school not based on money. My mum tells me I was upset that day as I was not getting any attention. So as soon as my sister Akshara was born,they got married in a beautiful ceremony at home. Though we were already a family,my parents wanted two children and my mom wanted to get married only when they had the second child. The Iyers have the better looking boys and the Iyengars the prettier girls.When I was five, I had the privilege of seeing my parents getting married. My dad is an Iyengar and my mom a half-Maharastrian and half-Rajput. You had star parents (Kamal Haasan and Sarika).What was your childhood like? Ahead of her upcoming release Ramaiya Vastavaiya, she talks to us about her normal childhood, why her parents separation did not bother her as much and how she considers herself a dark horse whose time is yet to come. While she considers her fathers acting more comprehensive,she has taken after her mothers spontaneity as an actor. She is a trained Hindustani classical singer who sung her first Ilaiyaraaja song at the age of six. Shruti Haasan, 27 is a fiercely sensitive and independent person who is selective about the people she likes. Shruti Hassan on marriage and her parents' separation The actress will be seen opposite newcomer Girish Kumar in Ramaiya Vastavaiya and she insists it is not her comebackfilm. If I would havespend time thinking what went wrong or not then I would havebeen a talent manger and not an actor," she said. The film working or not is not in my hands. The 27-year-old feels there is no formula for success."There is no formula (to success) I try to improvise anddo better. I judgemyself from my own personal growth of what I can see onscreen," Shruti said in an interview here. But ultimately all these things are not inyour control. Unfortunately both the films did not do well. Shruti made her debut in Hindi films with a cameoappearance in her father Kamal Hassan's Hey Ram in 2000.Later, she was seen in a full-fledged role in Luck (2009)and then in Madhur Bhandarkar's Dil Toh Baccha Hai Ji(2011). Shruti Hassan is yet to find successin Bollywood but the actress, who will be next seen inPrabhudeva's Ramaiya Vastavaiya, says she is notdisheartened by failures.