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]
Death
Kishore suddenly swooned while editing a film and upon being rushed to the hospital, he was diagnosed with a brain clot. Though a surgery was performed, he never regained consciousness. Kishore died on 6 March 2015 at the age of 36.[4][5]