Vijay Krishna Acharya wrote the story and screenplay for the highly successful action thriller films DHOOM (2004) and DHOOM:2 (2006) for YRF. Vijay Krishna Acharya made his directorial debut under the YRF banner with TASHAN (2007) for which he was also the writer. His second film DHOOM:3 (2013) was a major success at the box-office, for which he had also written the story and screenplay. In 2018, he wrote and directed the action-adventure THUGS OF HINDOSTAN (2018) casting Amitabh Bachchan and Aamir Khan together for the first time in a Hindi film, which also starred Katrina Kaif and Fatima Sana Shaikh.