As of 2005, he had written and directed 15 movies out of which 13 were highly successful. In 1982, he formed a company - Mukta Arts Private Limited which, in 2000, became a public company. Subhash Ghai is its chairman and managing director.

In 2006 he started his own state of the art film institute Whistling Woods International in Film City Bombay. The institute trains students in various aspects of film making - production, direction, cinematography, acting, animation etc.

He often cast Dilip Kumar, Shatrughan Sinha, Jackie Shroff, Anil Kapoor,Sanjeev Kumar Meenakshi Seshadri, Sanjay Dutt and Madhuri Dixit in his most successful films