He took part in the Loyola college production of Girish Karnad's Tughlaq which soon led him to get minor roles in Mithran Devanesan's Gilbert and Sullivan musicals in Chennai, India.
[2] He staged more than 25 plays in English and French the most notable of which were Tartuffe by Molière, The Lesson by Eugène Ionesco, The Maids by Jean Genet and Tony Kushner's adaptation of Pierre Corneille's L'Illusion Comique.
His film career started in 2008 when he landed the main villain's role in the movie Bale Pandya (2010) directed by Siddharth Chandrasekhar.
Amarendran is also a story writer and his first children's book in English Siri's Smile, written in 2011, has been translated into several Indian languages.
[5] He is a children's author who through his writing has explored his childhood memories and has created a small, cheerful world for his young readers.