The movie Spyder received a maximum and mixed response but the movie fails in the box office. Then he signed for two movie Spyder which is a bilingual movie and Mersal in these movies he featured in the Villain role. Later in the year 2016, he featured in Tamil movie Iraivi in this movie he featured as an alcoholic and abusive director with Vijay Sethupathi, Bobby Simha and more which offered him a positive review among the people with that he nominated for the National Award as well. Then in the following years, he directed and produced various movies like Maha Nadigan, Puli, Nanban, Ishq Wala Love as music director and more. Then he directed the Telugu movie Naani featuring Mahesh Babu with Amisha Patel, Ramya Krishnan and Devayani in supporting roles. After Ajith Kumar become busy with other movies he decided himself appear in the lead role and he signed Simran for the female lead role with Kiran and Devayani. In 2001, he started his third movie titled New by featuring Ajith Kumar and Jyothika in the lead role and composer Deva has composed ten songs for that movie.