Career Slump (2004 to 2008)

For the most part of the 2000s decade Jayaram's films weren't commercially successful, he only had a few films that clicked at the box-office. Manassinakkare (2003) performed very well, but since that film to 2008, approximately five years, Jayaram had a difficult time at the box-office. Most films around this time, Njaan Salperu Raman Kutty (2004), Finger Print (2005), Alice in Wonderland (2005), Madhuchandralekha (2006), Moonnamathoral (2006), and Anchil Oral Arjunan (2007), performed poorly both critically and commercially. It was in mid-2008, he made a come back playing Sugunan in Akku Akbar's Veruthe Oru Bharya (2008