 Raja then collaborated with Ravi for three consecutive commercially successful movies, "M. Kumaran S/O Mahalakshmi" (2004), "Something Something... Unakkum Enakkum" (2006) and "Santosh Subramaniam" (2008), all of which were remakes of successful Telugu movies.After a period of mixed success, he returned with his first original script, "Thani Oruvan" (2015) which went on to become one of the most profitable Tamil movies of 2015.As a result of his father's involvement in the film industry, Raja regularly visited Vauhini Studios as a teenager to watch his father work as a film editor.