[citation needed] John debut film in Tamil was Sachein (2005) with Vijay, Genelia D'Souza and Bipasha Basu in the lead roles.
[2] John later worked on the independent Tamil film Aanivaer (2006), which told the story of a doctor caught up in the Sri Lankan civil war.
The film won positive reviews and had a limited release across regions with Tamil diaspora.
[3] J In the early 2010s, John has worked on the script of Settai (2013) by helping director Kannan re-work the script of Hindi film Delhi Belly and on writing dialogues for Ambikapathy, the dubbed Tamil version of Raanjhanaa (2013).
[4] Subsequently he worked as a writer on film including Kaashmora (2016) and Motta Siva Ketta Siva (2017), while working as a screenplay and dialogue writing teacher at the Bofta Film Institute based in Chennai.