He was so fascinated to see the movie "Raiders of the Lost Ark" that he bought a book on its making and then he took the decision to make movies. After failing in the second year of his college , he hung around with the likes of Rishi Kapoor and Rahul Rawail , the latter giving him a break as an apprentice but was soon fired from the job.Then N.C.Chandra took him as his assistant for "Woh Saat Din" and "Bezubaan".His first production was Bhavani Junction , released in'84-'85 which was a flop.His next venture "Dadagiri" flopped too.
Then he went on to direct "Baaghi", "Madam X", "Pehchaan", "Gopi Kishen" and "Laadla".It was Sunil Shetty who urged him to produce again and thus he directed and produced Bhai which was released under Yashish Enterprises. YRHPK , which is a story about mistaken identities, was as 12 years' long dream of his ,was launched in June'99 but only got completed later due some date problems with Ajay Devgan. He managed to wrap it up in six months. Next he is doing a double-hero project with Manoj Bajpai and Sunil Shetty and has signed Raju Mawani for another film.