India, Aug. 26 -- Actor-filmmaker Kamal Haasan's 2000 film Hey Ram, which was made simultaneously in Tamil and Hindi, has an Aparna Sen connect that no one knows about. While promoting her recent film Coolie, Shruti Haasan revealed to Sathyaraj that her father learnt Bengali and even named Rani Mukerji's character in the film after Aparna to impress her. Here's what she said.

Shruti and Sathyaraj were discussing Kamal's dedication to his craft when it came up that he learnt Bengali to do a film in the language. Sathyaraj also pointed out that, like her father, Shruti knew multiple languages. Revealing that it was not just that, Shruti stated that Kamal took up learning the language out of admiration for Aparna.

She said, "No, no. Do you...