seeman took up film direction as a career after being inspired by the films of his mentor, bharathi raja and the work of manivannan. seeman started his career by directing "panchalankurichi", a village action film starring prabhu and madhubala. he collaborated with prabhu again in "iniyavalae", a romantic film also featuring suvalakshmi, gouthami and keerthi reddy. two further films announced in the period, "anandham" with karthik and "karma veerar" with sarathkumar, failed to materialise. his third film was "veeranadai" with sathyaraj and kushboo; after that he took a long break from films.