His Sufi songs for the 2010 movie "Once Upon A Time in Mumbaai" were immensely popular with the masses and songs like "Pee loon" and "Tum Jo Aaye" were declared chartbusters. He teamed up again with Mahesh Bhatt and Vishesh Films for music of "Crook" of which the song "Mere Bina" got instant recognition with public. His foot-tapping numbers for Rohit Shetty's "Golmaal 3" were also equally successful. In 2011, he got to work for Salman Khan's "Ready" and "Bodyguard". He recreated the famous 1971 song, "Dum Maro Dum" for Ramesh Sippy's 2011 movie of the same name. He then composed for the romance "Mausam" which had a strong influence of Punjabi. The songs were phenomenal hits in Northern India with "Rabba Main To Mar Gaya Oye" being a rage among people.