Born to Khaleel Ahmed and Malika Khaleel, Riaz K Ahmed is the P.R.O of big stars such as Superstar Rajinikanth, Thalapathy Vijay and Dhanush. Having worked in blockbusters such as ‘En Swaasa Kaatre’, ‘Kandukonden Kandukonden’, ‘Engaeyum Eppothum’, ‘3’,’Naan Ee’, ‘Vathikucchi’, ‘Thupakki’, ‘Ra.One(Tamil Version), ‘Kaththi’, ‘Ethirneechal’, ‘Kocchadaiyaan’,’Maan Karate’, ‘Maari’, ‘Kaaki Sattai’, ‘VIP’, ‘Inji Idipazhagi’, ‘Lingaa’, ‘Kaaka Muttai’, ‘Naanum Rowdy Thaan’, ‘Miruthan’, ‘Brahmotsavam’, ‘Thangamagan’, ‘Velainu Vandhutta Vellaikaaran’, ‘Eetti’, ‘Bangalore Naatkal’, ‘Kabali’, ‘Kodi’, ‘Amma Kanakku’, ‘Ghazi’, ‘VIP-2′,’Power Paandi’, ‘SPYder’, ‘Mersal’ is also a Celebrity and Event Manager. His current projects are, the most anticipated Rajinikanth-Akshay Kumar starrer ‘2.0’, Pa.Ranjith and Superstar Rajinikanth’s second film ‘Kaala’, Gautam Menon’s ‘Enai Nokki Paayum Thotta’ starring Dhanush and Megha Akash , ‘Bhaskar Oru Rascal’ starring Arvind Swamy and Amala Paul, Selvaraghvan and S.J.Suryah’s movie ‘Nenjam Marapathillai’, Karnan, Thiruchitrambalam.

Early Life:
Mr.Ahmed did his schooling in Sri Kalyani Kindergarten School, Nungambakkam from L.K.G to class 5. He then continued his high school in Muslim Higher Secondary School upto class 10. And later completed his higher secondary education in Madras-E-Azam Higher Secondary School. Before entering into the film industry he worked in various fields such as textiles, electronics, poultry, consumer products, etc. He was an ardent Rajini fan right from the beginning. He never missed watching all of Rajinikanth’s movies on the so-called “First Day, First Show”.

Personal Life:
He married Samreen (neé. Kalpana), who hails from Bombay in 1996. He has two daughters; Paras (25) who has completed her Master’s degree in English Literature From Anna Adarsh College For Women, Chennai and Kashish (19) who is pursuing her Bachelor’s degree in Journalism and Mass Communication at DG Vaishnav College

Career:
He started his career as a P.R.O with ‘Kalaipuli’ S.Thanu’s Production House and worked for the film ‘Cooliekaaran’ starring. Later, he got introduced to ‘Disco’ Shanthi while working on the movie “Nallavan” and worked as a part-time Manager for her, that made his career in the film industry. He then began his work as a P.R.O and Director Rajashekar gave him a chance to be his P.R Manager and also an opportunity to work as a P.R.O in one of his movies ,’Pudhu Varisu’ starring Pandiarajan and Rohini. He also runs a fan club for Superstar Rajinikanth in Chepauk , through which he got contacts of many celebrities during his initial days.
Later, he worked as an individual P.R.O for the movie ‘Enga Ooru Mariyamma’. It was produced by K.Rajan and he continuously worked for three films with the same producer and production house ‘Deivaanai Movies’ in films like ‘Pudhu Pudhu Raagangal’, ‘Archana IAS’ and a couple of movies. He also worked in a lot of small projects and with God’s grace, he got an opportunity to work in Superstar’s own production house for the movie ‘Valli’ in the year 1993. It was the biggest turning point as a P.R.O, in a career spanning three years. Next, he worked with Ulaganayagan Kamal Haasan in ‘Chandamama Production House’ for the movie ‘Nammavar’ in the year 1994. In the late 90’s , he slowly shifted his career to Celebrity Management.

He worked as a celebrity manager for Abbas, Khushboo, Reema Sen, Poonam Senger, Pandiarajan, Monal, Mira Chopra, Poorna, Anjali Zaveri, Ashish Vidhyarthi, Udhay Prakash, Aishwarya, Priya Raman, Malavika, Nikitha Thukral and Pooja Batra.

Following this, he continued his career as a celebrity manager for almost 10 to 15 years. In the year 1990, he produced ‘O Podu’ , the Tamil-dubbed version of the Telugu movie ‘Seema Simham’ starring Nandamuri Balakrishna, Simran and Reema Sen. The film gave him a big break, so he decided to enter into direct production. He produced his own movie ‘Thathi Thavadhu Manasu’ with new faces and Mumtaz, Vadivelu and Kalabhavan Mani in supporting roles. Due to the poor response he got for the film, he faced a downfall in his career. It was during that point of time when Actress Sangitha’s Aunt decided to introduce her son as a hero in the film ‘Odipolama’ which gave him a second break.

Later, he reached the peak of his career after working with A.R. Murugadoss’s film, produced by Fox Star Studios called ‘Engaeyum Eppothum’. Now his is a successful P.R.O in the Tamil film industry who has worked on more than 50 super hit movies .
He is also the celebrity manager for Nikki Galrani, Manju Warrier, Anjali, Malvika Sharma, Sanjana Singh, Shanthnu, Sangitha, Mumtaz, Suman, Sampath, Madhoo, Swarnamalaya, Sona, Kousalya, Malavika and Seetha.