hyderabadgive the child a camera and he will make a film the iranianborn australian film director vahid vahed said vahed told the times of india here on sunday that if a child is suppressed it is likely to make him a deviant hence in order to avoid this from happening he said the child should be given a parallel platform to express his or her talents it is when the child fails to get recognition or freedom that the child misuses his freedom when he receives it he said having left home and parents at the tender age of 14 with an inner urge to achieve something in life it was his hardwork and dedication that led himvahed said a child becomes a problem for the parents if they are not affluent enough but he managed to complete a degree in engineering with the help of a good samaritan young vahed spent three years in germany and later migrated to australia at the age of 23 as a migrant he had to work 20 times harder to seek recognition and it was camera that became the medium to express himself he saidthe camera he said was first a weapon utilised by the military for surveillance a director who has more than 50 films for children to his credit his 20 short films were screened at various international childrens film festivals at italy england and turkey his first film was cinema cinema which portrays iranian life some of the other noted films include salaam cinema on historian makhmalbaf of iran and two past inventions a feature film with support from the government the short fiction aquarium received wide appreciation at va8rious international film festivals