 At first, he directed 5 Tamil movies for Mohan Studios; two of them, "Minnalkodi"  and "Veer Ramani" - both released in 1937 and both starring K.T.Rukmini and B.Srinivas Rao became super hits.From 1937 to 1951, he directed 14 movies for Mohan Studios and its sister concern, Ramnik Productions.Excepting for "Village Girl", mostly all of them were action movies.