 His break as an individual director came from a Telefilm with Shekhar Suman and then he directed and acted in the Inspector Navin Mohan series of films, 90 minutes each with Navin Nischole and Mohan Gokhale and the Tele film Sandhya Chayya with Shriram Lagoo, Sulbha Deshpande etc.This tele film, Sandhya Chayya, got him the lifetime Chance for being the Episode Director of G. P. Sippy's famous TV serial Buniyaad.Since then he has Directed around 38 projects, from which & in one has also got the prestigious National Film Award, thus becoming the First Person to get a National Award for a Kashmiri Film, Bub.