KSG faded away from Tamil filmdom after the arrival of Bharathiraja, Mahendran etc. During that overlapping period he still continued to make films with lengthy dialogues (vaLa vaLa vasangaL for the critics ) and even went on saying that his films didn't need to be in color and directed Adukkumalli (*ing Sujatha). Later he made a color film Neer nilam neruppu (Sujatha again). I think this was in 80/81 timeframe.