He made his directorial debut in 2004 with "Lakeer", but Ahmed Khan says soon after his second film, "Fool n Final", he decided to take a break from direction as he did not want his creativity to be a "salve of Friday".
The choreographer, who will be returning to the director's chair with "Baaghi 2", says he decided to take up the project as he wanted to work with lead actor Tiger Shroff and producer Sajid Nadiadwala.
"I was quite done with direction. I did not want to be a slave of 'Friday'. I had an ongoing career in choreography and I also produced two films in between. I had ad films to do.
"Almost every year I was offered three-four films, the offers were good but somehow I did not feel like doing it or was caught up with other work. After over nine years I got offer from Nadiadwala, who is like my elder brother and Tiger was there too, so I said yes," Ahmed told PTI.
The makers recently realised the remixed version of '90s chartbuster track "Ek Do Teen" from "Tezaab". Actor Jacqueline Fernandez has recreated the dance number, which originally featured Madhuri Dixit.
Ahmed says the song is his personal favourite and he wanted to popularise it again by bringing out the new version
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