Haasan was born to actors Kamal Haasanand Sarika Thakur in Chennai. Her father is anIyengar while her mother Sarika was born to aMaharashtrian father and Rajput mother. [5] [6]Her younger sister Akshara Haasan is also an actress and represented India nationally forBallroom Latin dancing.[7] Actor and lawyerCharuhasan is her uncle. Her cousins are actresses Anu Hasan and Suhasini Maniratnam, the later of whom is married toMani Ratnam. Haasan studied at Lady Andal Venkatasubba Rao school in Chennai and moved to Mumbai to study psychology at St. Andrew's College.[8]
Haasan focused on cinema and music, and eventually traveled to the USA to continue to learn music at the Musicians Institute in California, before returning to Chennai
