Acting career
Early career
Ajith was born as the middle child in Secunderabad, a city north of Hyderabad to a Palakkad Iyer father [7] and a Sindhi mother, and was brought up in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.[8] Ajith began speaking Tamil only after entering films.[8] He dropped out of Asan Memorial Senior Secondary School in 1986 before completing his higher secondary.[9] He took up work as a two wheeler auto mechanic, and got himself a driver's licence to coincide with his interests, that of car / bike racing. At 18, Ajith had to take up a job to support his career in racing. Joining as an apprentice, he rose to be a merchandiser with a garment export company, doing small-time press ads and TV commercials occasionally. He had put a lot of money into racing and would borrow tyres from his friends who used to help when the chains wore out as there was no money in racing at that time.
