Murugadas, who started his film career as script-writer, involved in the story sittings of Vaali and Kalisundam Raa.

He became a popular director overnight in Telugu with his bilingual film Gajini. He was able to extract the perfect feeling from the hero Suriya and mould it on the celluloid to mesmerize the audiences.

Before Gajini, he had worked for Ramana (which was later remade in Telugu as Tagore).

Murugadas has his strength in script-writing. He prepares a script where no one could point a loophole in it. At the same time, the way he prepares the screenplay, that do wonders on the presentation of a scene perfectly on the screen.