SHRUTHI

SHRUTHI - Film Actress

Shruti - Born on September 18, 1975 in a Kannada speaking family in Karnataka, Shruti's birth name is Priyadarshani. She was rechristened as Shruti by the famous actor-director Dwarakish who introduced her as a leading star for his 1990 film Shruthi.

Shruthi was in Puttur in her early ages of life. Shruti started her cinema career as a side actress and acted in Kannada movie Aasegobba Meesegobba as Shivarajkumar's sister. Later in the year 1990, she acted as heroine in the movie Shruti directed and produced by Dwarakish. This movie was a successful one running over 25 weeks. Some of the most famous and successful Kannada movies from Shruti are, Shruti, Taayi Illada Tavaru, Veerappa Nayaka, Gauri Ganesha, Bombat Hendthi (Karnataka State award Winner), Muddina Maava, Midida Hrudayagalu. Soon after these films, Shruti was stereotyped for tear jerking roles in many Kannada films.

In her career spanning for more than two decades, she acted with all the leading male stars in the film industry of her times like Dr.Vishnuvardhan, Dr.Ambrish, Shivarajkumar, Shashikumar, Ramesh Aravind, Jaggesh, Devaraj, Sunil, Abhijeeth Ram Kumar and others.

Her Tamil film Kalki (1996) directed by the ace director K. Balachander won her the Filmfare Award and also the Tamil Nadu State Award for Best Actress.

She also acted in a Malayalam movie Oraal Mathram.

Shruti made her small screen debut with the Tamil daily serial, Karthigai Pengal aired on Sun TV from July 2012.

She was married to the director of her many films, Mahendar and is now divorced. Post her divorce, she was romantically linked with Chakravarthy, a leading journalist. However, they separated later over differences.

Reconciling their differences, Shruti married Bangalore-based journalist Chandrachooda Chakravarthy at a simple ceremony in the Kollur Mookambika temple on 6th June 2013.