 Ranjith Sankar's third film with Jayasurya, a horror comedy titled "Pretham" was released in August 2016.The film was Sankar's biggest commercial success since then and was remade in Telugu.Ramante Edanthottam was his next, a best-selling movie on female empowerment.He followed it up with sequels to Punyalan and Pretham titled Punyalan Private Limited and Pretham2.