 But after a schedule of filming, Ramchandra PN found out that commercial mainstream cinema was not his cup of tea.He came to Mumbai in 1991 and got himself involved in the Television serial "Surabhi" a cultural show that was experimenting with the TV magazine format, produced by anchor Siddharth Kak.Over the next ten years, as a freelancer, he directed more than hundred short documentaries for this cultural show, subjects mainly pertaining to his home state of Karnataka – on Gangubai Hanagal, Mallikarjun Mansur, Shivaram Karanth, B.V. Karanth, Vijaynath Shenoy's Hastha Shilpa, the Hampi Ruins, the Hoysala Temples, Mysore Ganjifa, the professional stage actresses of Mariyammanahalli, cock fights, the Electronic tampura, the Lokur Joint family in North Karnataka, the Coastal Buffalo race of Kambala among others.