He organised concerts abroad to clear the losses.

Though Santhosam did well at the box office, still, he incurred losses as a producer which led him to take a long break from acting. Towards the end of the first phase of his career, he produced two of his films Vishwanath (1996) and Santosham (1998). Saravanan subsequently played a series of the lead role in films in the 1990s, but his career came to a halt in the latter end of the decade. While on campus, he was spotted by director Radha Bharathi, who offered him the chance to be a part of the film Vaidehi Vandhachu (1991). Saravanan then moved to Chennai and completed a course in acting at the Adyar Film Institute. He consequently became acquainted with Sivachandran and his then-wife, Lakshmi, and the pair were keen to launch him as an actor opposite Lakshmi's daughter Aishwarya, but the plans did not materialise. Sivachandran and requested him for an opportunity to act in his films. He visited the sets of a film being shot in Salem by director M. Saravanan had an interest in Tamil films as a child and regularly took part in performance arts during school. In an episode of Bigg Boss Tamil 3, he opened up on his second marriage and that it was his first wife who accepted the second marriage as they wanted a child.

His first marriage was to Suryashree, a Telugu woman with whom he studied in Adyar Film Institute. Saravanan obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Tamil Literature from the Government Arts College, Salem. His father was a police inspector and his mother was a staff nurse. Saravanan was born into a Tamil family in Salem and was the second of five children.

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