Shruti Haasan on the Metal Influence in Visceral New Song 'Monster Machine'

The actor and singer-composer name-checks Nine Inch Nails as an influence for the new song and video, produced via her art label BLCK with artist Santanu Hazarika

- ANURAG TAGAT

AT THE CORE of it, everything Shruti Haasan does is metal. Sure, her latest single “Monster Machine” – produced by Karan Parikh and Karan Kanchan – could be pegged as having industrial rock influences at best, but the music video sees the singer-composer and actor being perhaps the most intense version of herself.

The video is directed by Chennai filmmaker Dwarkesh Prabakar and shot by DOP Bhuvan Gowda (whose credits include visual blockbusters like