[4] A critic wrote that the film "has everything that might count as a cliche but the marvel of it is that it never descends into mediocrity or becomes predictable".
[5] He commenced work for his next film Magamuni based on the two namesake characters in 2015,[3] and first wrote Maga before Muni.
[8] Regarding the film, a critic wrote that "Director Santhakumar comes back to filmmaking after a eight-year gap [...] but has not lost touch with the craft, going by Magamuni.
[9][10] Unlike his previous two films, he turned producer with Rasavathi (2024),[11][12] which was not well received with a critic noting that "To call the film’s pacing slow is an understatement and it’s understandable given the wafer-thin plot, which the director tries to accentuate by adding more characters that in turn lead to more scenes".
[7] Between films, Santhakumar likes to do solo traveling for soul searching and writing.