Actor Aditi Rao Hydari says her shift to the South film industry was organic as the work being offered there was way more exciting from what was pitched to her in Bollywood. Hydari's made her Hindi debut with filmmaker Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra's "Delhi 6" in 2009 and rose to prominence in 2011 with director Sudhir Mishra's movie "Yeh Saali Zindagi.

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".