Don Max
Editing
Biography
Don Max is an Indian film editor, who has worked on Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu language films. He is considered one of the leading contemporary film editors in the Malayalam film industry, and has introduced several new editing techniques into the region's films. Beginning his career as an editor for ad films and television channels, Don initially focussed on animation, before realising that he would have a more fulfilling career as an editor the possibilities in editing. He joined Ketan Mehta’s Institute and then worked in the Prime Time channel in Dubai, before beginning working as an editor for the Malayalam channel, Kairali. Don subsequently did trailers for more than fifty films, before debuting as a senior editor through Shaji Kailas’s The Tiger (2005). Don experimented with doing editing at the location, becoming one of the first Malayalam editors to do so, while he also did editing for V. K. Prakash’s Moonnamathoral (2006), the first digital cinema in Malayalam. He simultaneously worked on Tamil film projects and worked on big budget films such as Aadhavan (2009), Sura (2010) and Ponnar Shankar (2011). Don also garnered positive reviews for his work in Jilla (2014), with a critic from Indiaglitz.com noting "Don Max sure is a gifted editor" and "has a very rich taste, evidently shown through the methods he used to connect the scenes". In late 2014, he began his first directorial venture with actor Anoop Menon in the lead role.
Known For

Appu and Achu are twin brothers who do not get along with each other since childhood. When their enemies create misunderstandings between them, they bay for each other's blood.
Annan Thambi

Five years after becoming Chief Minister of Kerala, Jathin Ramdas' move to align with communal forces led by Balraj 'Baba' Bajrangi, triggers Stephen Nedumpally aka Khureshi Ab'raam to return with his Man Friday Zayed Masood to save his home state and settle scores.
L2: Empuraan

A cop decides to take on his godfather, who raised him from childhood, and make him realize the error of his ways.
Jilla

When a serious incident puts a university and its students at risk, a stoic lecturer devises a plan to protect them.
Aghosham

A professional assassin is tasked with the murder of a prominent local judge; however, after a series of failed attempts, he is forced to deal with complications and old relationships arising from his troubled past.
Aadhavan

A man unravels the mysteries of his past and his upbringing while settling a village feud.
Silambattam

Baba Kalyani, a police officer, travels to Kochi to uncover a terrorist conspiracy. He must not only work on the case but also deal with old rivals who are hell-bent on settling scores with him.
Baba Kalyani

Ponnar Shankar is based on historical novel written by Kalangir M. Karunanidhi. Story is about the two warriors, both are brothers named Ponner and Sankar living in Kongu Nadu (present day Coimbatore, Erode etc..). This is a historical movie and these two warriors are even worshipped today at most of the above mentioned part of Tamil Nadu.
Ponnar Shankar

When a corrupt politician tries to seize the land of his villagers, a brave and powerful fisherman sets out to fight against him.
Sura

A police officer investigates a series of brutal murders, uncovering dark secrets that blur the line between man and monster. As the case unfolds, hidden truths from his own past begin to resurface, leading to a shocking confrontation.
Manushya Mrugam

Three childhood friends Mathukutty, Binoy and Zachariah re-unite in Goa to fight a Casino don who was responsible for the deaths of their fathers.
China Town

The film was co-produced by M. S. Rajesh and Dr. Sunitha Krishnan, an internationally known anti-trafficking crusader. It explores the consequences of sex trafficking, testing the vulnerability of trust in human relations.
Naa Bangaaru Talli

D.P Pallickal, an amateur film maker who claims he is the next film legend. D.P has great passion, but lacks talent. His family and friends constantly make fun of his amateurishness of his masterpiece short films.
Monsoon Mangoes

During the pandemic lock-down, A motivational speaker named Kalidas moves into the thirteenth floor of an apartment in Kochi. Soon Kalidas begins to observe supernatural elements around him and he decides to investigate.
Alone

The story is centred on Lal Krishna Viradiar, the enigmatic criminal lawyer with an even more enigmatic mission. Lal Krishna helps out hardened criminals to get away from the courts. But later, he pursues and takes them out in a bizarre show of vigilante justice.
Chinthamani Kolacase

Chaarulatha (also spelled as Charulatha) is a 2012 Indian horror film simultaneously made in Kannada and Tamil languages. The film was directed by Pon Kumaran, a former associate to K. Bhagyaraj and K. S. Ravikumar, and features Priyamani in the lead role. The film was an adaptation of the Thai horror film Alone. Sundar C Babu composed the film's music.] The film’s story is about conjoined twins. Produced by Global One Studios and distributed by Hansraj Saxena's Sax Pictures, Charulatha released on 21 September 2012 with dubbed Malayalam and Telugu versions with the same title.
Chaarulatha

A lawyer, who defends criminals, wages vigilante justice against them in private. The movie deals with the murder of a girl who was ragged and brutally murdered by her classmates. The lawyer, through his own investigation arrives at the fact that she was brutally raped by college authorities and framed the students as culprits.
Ellam Avan Seyal

The story revolves around two spoiled youngsters, Jones and his cousin Korah and the turn of events during their vacation.
ABCD: American-Born Confused Desi

The film revolves around the lives of two people: Arjun, a wealthy man in the construction business in Kochi who has an affair with his subordinate Sonia , even though he is preparing to be engaged to his family friend's daughter Ann ; and Ansari , who lives in a slum and works in a supermarket doing odd jobs who is mocked for his appearance and has a crush his co-worker Nafiza .
Chappa Kurishu

Inidhu Inidhu depicts the happy college days of a group of undergraduate students. Freshmen Siddhu (Adith), Aravind alias Tyson (Narayan), Vimal (Vimal), Shankar (Shravan), Madhu (Reshmi), Aparna aka Appu and Jiya join an upmarket college in the city. Each of them comes from different states of the country. They are ragged by the seniors at the college which makes them bond with each other. Eventually, Siddhu falls for Madhu, Tyson falls for his senior Sravanthi, fashionably called Shravs (Sonia), who is not receptive. The rest of the film is how the four couples get closer during their four-year course, peppered with pangs of jealousy, separated, reconciliation before going their separate ways upon graduation.