in 1999, he starred in the multi-starrer films "snehaloka" and "habba". both the films were successful. however, the films that followed continued to fail one after the other. without luck as an actor, he turned towards producing films and with his wife's name he brought out the film "pandavaru" in 2006. a multi-starrer with a host of prominent stars and a remake of "hulchul", "pandavaru" proved to be an average grosser at the box office.