Makarand was jury on Marathi Reality T.V. show Marathi Paul Padate Pudhe along with Urmila Matondkar.
Together with arts personalities like dancer Vani Ganapathy, actors such as Rohini Hattangadi, Suhasini Mani Ratnam and Urmila Matondkar, lyricist Javed Akhtar and director M. S. Sathyu, Mohammed Ali planned a series of plays to its effect.
He comes to his master declaring his love for Maya (Urmila Matondkar).
The film, that has Aravind, a newcomer, Suha, Kazan Khan and Vijayan in supporting and Abbas in a cameo role, is a remake of the 2002 Hong Kong-Thai-Singaporean film The Eye, which was remade later in the United States under the same title and in Hindi as Naina, starring Jessica Alba and Urmila Matondkar in the lead roles respectively.
In 2001, Vishal made a brief appearance in the Lux Soap commercial featuring Urmila Matondkar; was invited by the Egyptian government to perform at the 7th Cairo Song Festival and assisted Shiamak in conceptualizing events like Femina Miss India.