Career
He was best known for acting in Mehboob Khan"s 1940 film Aurat which was a predecessor of the Oscar nominated 1957 remake Mother India. Ahuja was brought into films by director Mehboob Khan who cast him in the leading role in Ek Hi Raasta in 1939. In 1940 he acted in Mehboob Khan"s Aurat opposite Sardar Akhtar, an earlier version of the more famous Mother India (1957).
He acted in many more films throughout the 1940s before becoming a producer in the early 1950s.
The one film he produced was a flop and he quit the film industry after his last film Aulad (1954). The losses suffered from his home production"s failure resulted into him shifting his entire family to Virar.
He lived a reclusive life from the mid 1950s onwards. He died in 1998 at the age of 81 of a heart attack.