He also directed some music videos: Bally Sagoo's "Mera Laung Gawacha", Kamaal Khan's "Jaana", Bali Brahmbhatt's "Tere Bin Jeena Nahin", Shiamak Davar's "Jaane Kisne", Hema Sardesai's "Bole Humse Kuch Na Gori" and Rajshri Music's "Yeh Hai Prem", a song for Alisha Chinoy with Milind Soman.

It earned Kohli the Filmfare Award for Best Director, which he won against his mentor Yash Chopra, who was nominated for the epic love saga Veer-Zaara (2004).

[6] Despite controversy, Fanaa opened to positive reviews from critics upon release, and emerged as a major commercial success at the box-office, grossing over ₹1.03 billion, and ranked as the sixth highest-grossing Hindi film of the year.

Unlike Kohli's two previous ventures, it opened to mixed reviews, with criticism directed towards its story and screenplay, and emerged as a commercial failure at the box-office.

[8] Kohli next produced the romantic comedy-drama Break Ke Baad (2010), which was directed by Danish Aslam and starred Deepika Padukone and Imran Khan in lead roles.

[11] His next directorial venture was the romantic comedy Teri Meri Kahaani (2012), starring Shahid Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra in triple roles, portraying three couples from three different eras – in 1910 Sargodha, in 1960 Mumbai, and 2012 London.

Kohli conceived the film based on the idea of soulmates, showing the strength of love beyond generations by having the same two actors portray all three couples without using a reincarnation theme.

Teri Meri Kahaani opened to mixed-to-positive reviews upon release, with particular praise for its storyline and themes; however, like his previous venture Break Ke Baad, it emerged as an underwhelming commercial success at the box-office.

His next directorial venture was the spy thriller Lahore Confidential (2021) starring Richa Chadha, Arunoday Singh and Karishma Tanna in lead roles, which released on ZEE5.