In 1997, Premgi planned to enter the film industry as a director with a project titled
Wanted starring
his elder brother and
S. P. B. Charan. The film, which had
his younger cousin as music composer and
his father and
S. P. Balasubrahmanyam as comedians, did not complete shoot. In 2005, he became an independent music director with
Gnabagam Varuthe, starring his brother. turning a playback singer, singing mostly the rap portions in Yuvan Shankar Raja's compositions, before working with other music composers as well. Working with Yuvan Shankar Raja, he also remixed some of his compositions for the soundtrack albums, the first being "Loosu Penne" from the film
Vallavan (2006). After that, he composed for
Agathiyan's
Nenjathai Killathe (2008) and for
Thozha (2008), in which he played one of the leading roles as well. Apart from film music, he composed music for an episode titled
Planet Galatta II – Adra Sakkae on Singapore's satellite channel, "Mediacorp Vasantham". Amaren composed a song with singer
Suresh Peters called "The One Anthem", and it was made as a tribute to the legend
Michael Jackson. ==Personal life==