 After doing some free-lance work, he joined Prakash Mehra, and was employed as his right-hand man for over 20 years.Here he did many projects with actors like Amitabh Bachchan, Jeetendra, Shashi Kapoor, Vinod Khanna, Raaj Kumar, Anil Kapoor, Sanjay Dutt, Sridevi, Smita Patil, Parveen Babi, Pran, Amjad Khan and many other new actors.He has worked as an actor/writer/director for many movies in the last 46 years.