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Kishore N
Kishore N (born 13 July) is an Indian film director and screenwriter who works mainly in the Tamil film industry. His short films were selected for Naalaya Iyakunar. His Short film Panchayathu Potti won the special jury award at Norway Tamil Film Festival 2013. He later directed his debut feature film Maayon (2022), starting Sibi Sathyaraj and Isaignani Ilaiyaraaja scoring the background.

Early life
Kishore was born and bough up in Chennai, he did his schooling in Adarsh Senior Secondary School, Chennai  after which he went on to study B.Sc Physics in New College, Chennai. He then joined IT firm and worked with few MNC. During his working days he started to explore film making and started making short films. His inspirational icon was Director Mani Ratnam.

His short films took him to a popular show called Naalaya Iyakunar and got telecasted on TV.

Career
Kishore made his directional feature film debut with the movie Maayon (2022) movie starring Sibi Sathyaraj in the lead role and Music by Isaignani Ilaiyaraaja. The movie was released in Tamil & Telugu and had a successful run in the theatre.

Maayon has been awarded the ‘Best Mythological Movie Award’ at the 47th Toronto International Film Festival 2022 held in Canada.