I. Mueenuddin Ahmed

I. Mueenuddin
Ahmed at the shoot of Endrendrum Punnagai in 2012
Born	I. Mueenuddin (1973-03-30) 30 March 1973 (age 43) Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Nationality	Indian
Occupation	Film director, producer
Years active	2009–present

I. Mueenuddin (born 30 March 1973), known as I. Ahmed, is an Indian film director and producer associated in South Indian cinema, predominantly known for his romantic-comedy film Endrendrum Punnagai (2013).

Mueenuddin was born and raised in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He completed his graduation in Visual Communication at Loyola College, Chennai.

Mueenuddin started his career as an ad director to Kadir and worked in Kadhal Desam and Kadhalar Dhinam.

He then left to Singapore to start a career as a Television resp. commercial ad director and over the years he has directed more than 80 short films resp. ads and he created content in varied genres. With more than 18 years of media experience, creating content for film, television and radio he is also acclaimed to be the creative director for reputed media companies like UTV, Radio City in India and Singapore. He has also the credit of setting up a radio station, designing the core content and the sound of the station.

He was invited by the Contemporary Asian Arts Center and LASALLE-SIA College of Arts in Singapore to collaborate with internationally acclaimed musicians and performance artists on a unique artistic project named "Wax City" held in Bali, Australia and Singapore. His profession has given the opportunity to travel extensively and attend various Film resp. television markets and festivals. Due to this exposure he is well informed about the present happenings and latest trends pertaining to the media industry around the world. He is the managing partner of "Think Entertainment". His films Vaamanan and Endrendrum Punnagai were released in 2009 and 2013 respectively. Both movies did good business at the Box Office.

Ahmed directed his next Tamil-language movie titled Manithan, released in 2016 and had a genre of legal thriller. The film featured an ensemble cast, including Udhayanidhi Stalin, Hansika Motwani, Radha Ravi, Prakash Raj, and Vivek. It is an official remake of Subhash Kapoor's Hindi film Jolly LLB (2013), which itself being loosely based on the 1999 Delhi hit-and-run case. The story of Manithan revolves around a struggling lawyer in his hometown, comes to Chennai to become successful. He goes all out against a wealthy man in a hit-and-run case hoping that the publicity would help his business. The story was slightly altered from a comedy-drama genre in the original to a drama-thriller theme in Manithan. Manithan was released on 29 April 2016 to extremely positive reviews. At present he is scripting for his next feature film.