He subsequently wanted to pursue a course in cinematography at the Film and Television Institute in Pune, but was unable to do so "owing to my academic background in arts."

In an interview to Deccan Herald in 2003, he recalled, "Unfortunately, the [latter] film flopped miserably and I lost interest in acting.

[5] However he got a break as a lead actor in the 2009 released Chamkaisi Chindi Udaysi produced by his brother-in-law and his wife.

[7] After a string of commercial failures, Komal starred in the horror–comedy Namo Bhootatma (2014), a performance that was received well by critics.

Shyam Prasad S. of Bangalore Mirror felt that "Komal does his job well" and that "[t]here are no histrionics with everything cut to the point.

He played the role of an engineer Venkatesh whose only aim in life to get married and thereby get the license to have sex, something he had been obsessed with since childhood.

[12][13] In the horror-comedy Namo Bhoothathma 2 as Arjun, a prankster and owner of a local television channel, that gets into trouble after he pranks a couple of gangsters.