Shruti Haasan - 'NOTE'WORTHY

Joining the

             'band' wagon again!

Shruti Haasan has more reasons to be

excited this season...

      A good year and a half after The Extramentals disbanded, the stunning Shruti Haasan is back again; this time with a new band and a new line-up of musicians. The singer rocked the city recently with a live wire performance, at the launch of a music entertainment channel, with her band and seemed absolutely thrilled about the rune her life is currently singing to.

       "After The Extramentals disbanded because one of the founding members left, I didn't really get around forming another band for some reason or the other," says the pretty rockstar, "Sure, I continued to perform, but it was always a collaborative effort; So, what prompted her to finally get the cogs of her 'band' wagon into motion? "I have been working hard on a lot of material over the last couple of months, my own songs and composition. And I realised that I would need a proper band if the material was to come to fruition the way I wanted it to. And hey, what's a good singer without a good band?"

      The band itself will feature musicians from the city, like Alok (keyboards), Naveen (bass), Vasanth (drums) and Bruce (Guitar), all Chennai based musicians, because as Shruti confesses, "Somehow, i find that as far as making music goes, my loyalties lie with Chennai musicians. This is an extremely exciting venture for me - both as singer and songwriter. We will play alternative rock music, with a lot of jazz and pop influences thrown in, it'll be easy listening, happy music." The band, which goes by the name Shruti at present, is all set to perform on a regular basis from now on (in fact, show have already been lined up in Hyderabad and Calcutta) using predominantly their own compositions as Shruti firmly believes in promoting original material.

    Meanwhile, the stunner might have achieved a lot in so little time but she will relishes the smaller moments and achievements in life. What's her latest achievement? "Its' silly to talk about it, but I learned to ride a scooter recently." she smiles, "I was apprehensive at first but once I got on the bike, it was pretty easy." But with her edgy biker-babe persona, does she see herself riding meaner machines sometime in the future? "While I am not really a speed freak, I absolutely love motorbikes,"admits the actress, whose movie with Suriya is scheduled to begin in June, "I have ridden a bike once before and,, who knows, may be one day I might just mount a chopper!"