74 years old Deepak Asha remained a bright star in the music & film world since last 50 years. As a director he made himself very successful not only in Sindhi films, but also won laurels in Hindi & Punjabi films. Sindhi can never forget his first Sindhi film in India "ABANA" which create box office history as far as Sindhi films are concerned. Again he produced "Insaaf Kithe aa" and directed "Shal Dhiyar na Jaman", both very popular Sindhi feature films.

In Hindi films where he was known as Dharam Kumar, he introduced very popular stars like Sheela, Nimmi, Rajkumar, Mehmood, Sujit Kumar, Leela Mishra and Lalita. He directed Hindi films namely "Jalte Dep", "Ghamand", "Road No. 304", "Spy in Goa", Main aur Mera Bhai", "Chale Hain Sasural", "Truck Driver", "Ek Saal Pehle", etc of which he was also producer of some films.

Before his death, he completed under production Sindhi films "Jai Jhulelal" and "Sant Knwar Ram".