 His first Bollywood film, "Ghajini" (2008), which was a Hindi remake of his Tamil same titled 2005 film, became the first ever Bollywood film to gross over 100 crore domestically.In 2012, he directed the action thriller "Thuppakki", starring Vijay, which became the Third Tamil film to enter the 100 Crore Club after "Enthiran" (2010) and .He worked with Vijay again with the box office hits "Kaththi" and "Sarkar" (2018).