Don Max

Don Max was born in Mundakayam in Idukki district in Kerala. He was born on 16th November, 1980. He was born to K. L. Varghese, who worked as a former bank manager at a bank in Kerala. His mother, T. V. Chinamma, worked as a school teacher for a school called Thomas High School. She taught Malayalam to her students. He also studied in the same school when he was seven years old. Having a mother who was also a teacher gave him constant motivation to study as a child. He was always drawn towards arts, since his childhood, and so in his pre-university, he chose his major as arts and studied in St. Dominic College in Kerala. Right after this, he chose to get a degree for a bachelor of arts in St. Thomas College in Kerala.

He then got very inspired by the animation field. To pursue his career in this field, he moved to Bangalore. In this city, he joined classes for animation and design in a very well known institute in Bangalore called the Arena Animations. He was always very dedicated to whatever he learned and made sure he gave his hundred percent to everything. He wanted to learn more of animation, since he was truly interested in it, and so he went on focusing in this part of the program. After the animation, he realized he could make a career as an editor in movies, and so he decided to change his path. He then went to Dubai and worked with Primetime channel in Dubai to gain more experience in this field. Before this, he had also enrolled himself in a school that taught editing.

He soon got his chance in Malayalam cinema for editing movies and trailers. He started off small scale, just with the trailers of a few Malayalam movies and shows. He started working really hard at editing and very soon, he had already edited around fifty movie trailers. He was very well appreciated by everybody around him. Hard work paid off for Don Max and soon he was the head editor for many movies in the Malayalam movie industry.

He was already famous all over the country for his editing in the Malayalam movie industry, but he didn't stop there. He pushed himself to start editing even in the Tamil movie industry and now is famous all over the country.

Few of his famous works are ‘Jilla’, and The Tiger, among others.