In 2013, he announced that Rangrezz would be his last Hindi film for a while and shifted focus to Malayalam cinema. Towards 2000s, he moved to Bollywood (Hindi-language cinema) and remained active throughout the decade. Priyadarshan began his career in Malayalam cinema in the early 1980s and was active throughout the 1980s and 1990s. He was one of the first directors in India to introduce rich color grading, clear sound and quality dubbing through his early Malayalam films. He has done about 27 films in Hindi alone, the highest number of films done by any Hindi film director after David Dhawan. In a career spanning over three decades, he has directed more than 95 films in various Indian languages, predominantly in Malayalam and Hindi, while also having done six films in Tamil and two in Telugu. Priyadarshan Soman (born 30 January 1957), better known by the mononym Priyadarshan, is an Indian film director, writer and producer.
