The actor went on to feature in Imtiaz Ali's "Rockstar", romantic-comedy "London Paris New York", action-thriller "Wazir" and Sanjay Leela Bhansali's period- drama "Padmaavat". She made her Tamil debut in 2007 with "Sringaram" but got a breakthrough a decade later with filmmaker Mani Ratnam's romantic-drama "Kaatru Veliyidai".

"The stuff that was coming to me in Hindi, I wasn't so excited about. But films coming my way in Tamil, Telugu or Malayalam were really exciting. People were writing scripts for me, waiting for me to finish something and join them. It wasn't that I was weighing my options. I was grabbing the best of what I was being offered, with some of the best people," Hydari told PTI.

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"Kaatru Veliyidai" set the boll rolling for the actor as she followed it up with Telugu drama "Sammohanam", Ratnam's "Chekka Chivantha Vaanam" and last year's Malayalam romance "Sufiyum Sujatayum". Hydari, whose last Hindi film was Mishra's 2018 drama "Daas Dev", said lack of good roles in Hindi film industry never bothered her as the interesting work kept coming from south.