Shruti Haasan’s Rs 15 crore Mumbai duplex: Inside the actor’s loft featuring industrial-style interior, bold colours, gothic-rustic décor, and quirky treasures from around the world

Shruti Haasan’s Mumbai duplex is more than an abode; it’s an extension of her persona. Walk through the door, and you will find a striking blend of concrete walls, bold colours, gothic touches, and eclectic décor. Nothing here is ordinary, just like her life and career. She acts in three languages, sings in another key entirely, and keeps an alter ego named Fiona next to anime figurines. The apartment simply gave up trying to choose between things. The home worth around Rs 15 crore is Andheri, an upscale western suburb of Mumbai, does not pretend to be one thing: it’s industrial-style, with gothic elements and a maximalist collection.The industrial-style interiorShruti Haasan didn’t go for the usual choices from a designer’s moodboard when it came to the interior. She stuck with her plan to keep it real. The industrial-style interior, with concrete walls and polished concrete floors, gives the space a raw and unfinished look. And it’s absolutely deliberate. She oversaw the architectural work herself. The concrete is the anchor, the thing that says, “I’m not making excuses.” But then comes the contradiction she engineered on top of it. Hard surfaces meet unexpected colour in places that catch you off guard. A purple wall in the kitchen. Bright cushions on a teal sofa. Orange lamps. Vinyl toys on grey shelves. All curated to mirror her own personality. “I always love mixing. I think like my personality: a bit of mixing, like hard and weird and colourful. It’s concrete and a lot of unnecessarily colourful corners,” she told The Quint earlier.The idea of home is quite different to her. “Home is not geography at all for me, that’s what I’ve realised. When I go back to Chennai, I feel an ease, and I feel a love that is so infinite. In Mumbai, I feel a different kind of love. In Hyderabad, because I work in these industries, I feel a different kind of love,” she told IANS earlier.Music becomes the moodboardThe music room sits at the heart of her home. Walk past the raw, unpainted walls and high ceilings that swallow sound, and you hit the room where Haasan actually builds things. The piano in one corner commands all the attention. She likes to play. It’s one of her favourite corners in the loft, where she spends time composing music. Next to it are, obviously, the musical instruments, including a guitar. There is one fascinating décor item nearby: a Sandman mask. It tells you everything about her approach to artistic self-expression: don’t take it seriously enough to make it boring. The grey concrete walls here would feel austere if not for the riot of personal rebellion happening on top of them. A multi-coloured rug claims the floor, vibrant lamps catch the light, and a chequered trunk doubles as a stand for her musical instruments. The cot-style bench wrapped in bright cushions sits nearby. None of it matches from a conventional gaze, and yet, all of it makes sense. This isn’t a room decorated by someone choosing between alternatives at a furniture store. This is a space built incrementally by someone who lived through phases and never bothered erasing earlier versions of herself.Colours and curated chaosClimb the spiral staircase with its exposed brick wall, and the contradiction doubles. The living room is divided into functional zones: sitting area, dining space, and a music workstation. The colours arrive: the green sofa, the plain and patterned cushions in vibrant hues, adding more organised chaos. By design convention, many of these patterns, colours and textures may not belong together, but Shruti Haasan has built her home on one principle: if it makes her happy, it belongs.That perfectly explains the collection of books, anime figurines, disco balls, and ducks collected while travelling. Another unexpected collectible in her home is a knife, gifted by her father, the legendary actor-filmmaker Kamal Haasan.A Goth girl, Shruti Haasan, of course, has a figure in her living room. She calls it Fiona. “She is my alter ego,” the actress told Farah Khan in a vlog shared by the director on YouTube. Fiona isn’t a random art piece either. There’s a story about how she landed in the ‘Salaar’ actress’ home. “I did this music video which never got released. So I didn’t know how to keep it in my cupboard. I felt this needed a mannequin, and here she is.”For Shruti Haasan, home is not a place, but an extension of herself, just like her Mumbai duplex. “Nothing’s really been more home than me for myself; that might sound a bit self-centred, but it’s worked out really well for me.”Ready to Make a Smarter Property Decision? Build Your Legacy with TOI Homes.