


During this time of struggle, he was approached and assigned by director Vasanth to compose the music for his film Poovellam Kettuppar (1999). The failures of his first projects meant that he was not offered any film projects and assignments subsequently. However, both the soundtrack album as well as the film itself failed to attract audiences and do well, and Yuvan Shankar Raja's following projects Velai (1998) and Kalyana Galatta (1998) were not successful either his compositions for these films did not receive good reviews or responses, with one reviewer labelling the music and background score in the latter as 'cacophony' and 'poor'.
