Sridevi belonged to Tamil cinema

I've no doubt seeing some of Sridevi's earlier, works in Tamil cinema, that the Tamil Film industry is what gave her full opportunity to explore her creativity and give it full expression. Be it 16 Vayathinile, Moondram Pirai, Varumayin Niram Sivappu to name a few, you can see the amount of footage and complex, women-centric roles she got to play at such a young age. I'm sure working alongside a talent like Kamal Hassan in many of such films also would have immensely honed her talents.
It's no surprise that after a few years of moving on to Hindi films, she was getting frustrated and began picking and choosing films and reducing the number of films she signed up. This in turn might have distracted her from acting leading to the mistakes in personal life and general unhappiness that plagued her throughout.
She was lucky though that Yash Chopra got her memorable roles in Lamhe and Chandni. And credit to her for only opting for films where she had enough expression for talent like Chalbaaz, Judaai, English Vinglish even though these became few and far between. Good that she didn't get typecast in B Grade Jeetendra remakes of Tamil mass hits.
Yet, one who'd seen Sridevi's innocence, natural child like vice and easy body language in Tamil critically acclaimed films, would immediately notice that these did not suit her in Hindi films. And that she never got those kind of complete roles in Hindi, which over time, would have matured into National award winning characters if she'd stuck to Tamil.
Well, but life has its way with things, and even the beautiful Sridevi chose to go under Hindi cinema for money, and under the knife for beauty, all leading to disastrous results...