Kishore Te.

Kishore Te (24 March 1978 – 6 March 2015) was an Indian film editor who worked in Tamil, Kannada and Telugu films. For his work in Aadukalam (2011) and Visaranai (2015), he won the National Film Award for Best Editing.

At age 21, Kishore joined film editors B. Lenin and V. T. Vijayan as an assistant.[citation needed ] He worked on more than 70 Tamil, Telugu, and Hindi films as an assistant editor. His first independent film as an editor was the Tamil film Eeram (2009) produced by Shankar and directed by Arivazhagan.[citation needed ]

Kishore suddenly swooned while he was editing a Vetrimaaran film and upon being rushed to the hospital, he was diagnosed with a brain clot. Even though a surgery was performed, he never regained consciousness.

Kishore died on 6 March 2015 at the age of 36.