- I. Ahmed hails from a traditional Muslim middle-class family. His mother was a teacher by profession and his father worked in a private firm. None of his family members are related to the cinema industry. Although Ahmed was not academically inclined in his school days, he spent most of his time dreaming about cinemas and filmmaking. Ahmed studied Visual communication course at Loyola College, Chennai. His first documentary explored the lives of trans-genders and their social rejection. His second documentary - Brother Unwanted - covered the living conditions of Sri Lankan Tamil refugees in refugee camps.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Sasshank Shivkumar
- Ahmed enrolled himself for the Visual communication course at Loyola College, Chennai. It was at this time that he found friends interested in film making and cinema. With the help of this course, Ahmed found an opportunity to work as an assistant director under director Kadir, of Idhayam fame. The course was his foundation, and helped him shape his career.
Ahmed worked as an assistant director under Kadir for two movies. Fresh out of college, he was not very focused and was very playful then. On several occasions he used to lie and escape from the set, along with his friend Sriram, and did not understand the importance of his work. He eventually realized that by being an assistant director he cannot learn the skills required for the craft and felt that an assistant director is just a glorified name for an errand boy.
In order to continue his learning journey, he moved to Singapore and worked in UTV International for 2 years before starting his own company, Think Entertainment. He worked mainly on projects for Mediacorp, a government owned television network. In Singapore, he worked with industry giants like Ilayaraja, Yuvan Shankar Raja and Karthik Raja and collaborated with them to shoot a music video for a Singapore government project. They composed nearly forty songs for the music video and it was shot in seven to eight different countries. The program was called Nenjinile and featured the forty music videos that he had shot.
He made several short films for Singapore television most of which were works of fiction and he considers himself a fictional director. A vast majority of his short films were both entertaining and message driven at the same time. Since he had to cater to the taste of the commercial mainstream television audience, his short films were a mix of entertainment and relevant social messages. He considers Kadan as his favorite of them all. Kadan received wide spread appreciation. It was a sensitive movie which dealt with the story of a construction worker and struggles that he undergoes during the time of economic recession.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Sasshank Shivkumar
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