Pradeep Ranganathan who started his career as a short filmmaker tasted success with his very first film 'Comali' starring Jayam Ravi and Kajal Aggarwal. He played the hero and directed his sophomore project 'Love Today' which has grossed more than ten times its budget of rupees five crores.

Meanwhile controversies arose as netizens pulled up old Facebook and Twitter posts of Pradeep in which he has severely trolled actor Vijay, Ajith's 'Mankatha' film, Yuvan Shankar Raja and legendary cricketers Sachin Tendulkar and Dhoni. Some of the posts that the users shared also contained abusive language. Pradeep was at the receiving end of scathing comments from netizens who branded him as a hate monger.

Pradeep has come out in clarification of the issue on Twitter and wrote "A lot of posts that has been circulating has been photoshopped.The facebook account has been deactivated as even changing one word ,changes a lot of things. Im not angry on the people trying to change things, instead I thank them for showing me how much people support me ."

The 29 year old added "Also few of the posts are real . But Posts with cuss words are fake. I’ve made mistakes , with age all of us grow and learn , i’ve tried correcting it . I still try to become a better person each day :)". On the professional front it is said that Pradeep will star in and direct another new movie and is also in talks to direct films with top heroes including Jayam Ravi.

Also few of the posts are real . But Posts with cuss words are fake. I’ve made mistakes , with age all of us grow and learn , i’ve tried correcting it . I still try to become a better person each day :)

— Pradeep Ranganathan (@pradeeponelife) November 16, 2022