User talk:Rikkykhan

Born at Bulandshahr, U.P, Mr. Rizwan Ahmad is a high profile media professional with over nine years of rich exposure to various media like Cinema, Television, Radio and Print Media. He is amongst few of the accomplished media professionals who have intensive grounding in Urdu media. He has credit to work for some of the most reputed media oraganistaions of the country like The Hindustan Times(New Delhi), DD News (New Delhi), Etv Urdu Channel,Ramoji Film City,Hyderabad etc.

He is a Gold Medalist in Journalism and Mass Communication (Masters) from Aligarh Muslim University (A.M.U) and also holds an M.Sc (Zoology) degree and one year P.G Course in Human Rights from the same university. His sound academic background has earned him two Merit Scholarships for his M.Sc degree and Human Rights course both. He also holds NSEP certificate (National Standard Examination of Physics) conducted by Indian Association of Physics Teachers(IAPT).For his merit in media education he has also been awarded United Mass Media Association(UMAA,New Delhi) scholarship.

Begining of his media career can be traced back to a very young age of 15 in the year 1989, when he joined Aligarh University as a class eleven student. Soon after joining A.M.U, he started exploring his deep passion for Cinema, Art and Culture and became the member of University Film Club. This association with Film Club almost lasted for a decade where he was actively involved in organising film festivals, retrospectives, quiz shows, lectures etc. As a part of Aligarh University’s vibrant culture he also immersed himself to other literary and cultural activities. He attended a month long work shop on Dramatics conducted by National School of Drama, New Delhi, conceived thematic poster exhibition(International Womens Day), oraganised International Human Rights Day in collaboration with United Nations and also edited news journals. Even before joining media as a full fledged profession, many of his articles,comments,letters were published in famous national dailies,house journals, newsletters etc. His quest for art and culture exposed him to almost all vehicles of communication but he had a special interest in electronic media which he has ultimatelty chosen as career.

He made his directorial debut to audio-visual media in the year 1999 with a short film, ‘‘A.M.U – A Journey to Bollywood“, his project film which depicts the contribution of Aligarh University to Indian Cinema. His keen interest in cinema and Urdu literature especially the Urdu writers contribution to cinema made him to join Etv Urdu channel in the year 2000, the only Urdu channel of Indian soil based at Ramoji Film City, Hyderabad and since then has never looked back again. In Etv Urdu channel he has not only produced and directed the programmes of almost all genres(over 30 programmes and over 2000 episodes) but also conceived new concepts of Urdu language and culture which became the channel driver. The weekly, Mehfil-e-Mushaira was one of such concepts which went on to become not only the most popular slot of Etv Urdu channel but also received wide acclaim from the country’s Urdu literature circle. He has also produced the famous‚Urdu Hai Jiska Naam series of over 1000 episodes which explored various facets of Urdu language, literature and culture. This series not only introduced elementary and advance Urdu teaching on television screen but also presented the Urdu legends of yore and today.

Rizwan has a number of television programs, short films, documentaries, events, live shows and on-air promotions to his credit. His experience in media ranges from Production & Direction, Creative Program Development, Scripting & Post Production, Film/TV Prod. Technology, Multicamera (On-Line) Direction, On-Air Promotions, Live Broadcasts, Graphics Animation Ideation, Prog. Presentations, Programming, FPC, Editing, Transmission to Film Appreciation as well.

Rizwan has been recently invited by famous Howard Film Company, London to join as Production Director. He holds specialization in Film/TV Direction, Script Writing and also in Developement Communication. His passion for cinema took him to Pune Film Institue(FTII, Pune), from where he has completed the prestigious Film appreciation Course. A true film buff, has critically studied the art,aesthetics of cinema  and believes that cinema can be a major force for social upliftment as it has a quality of reflection which triggers people to think and react.